{"id":296393,"date":"2023-10-19T19:44:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=296393"},"modified":"2023-10-19T19:44:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T19:44:06","slug":"rune-still-receiving-death-threats-as-tennis-stars-mum-urges-atp-to-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/tennis\/rune-still-receiving-death-threats-as-tennis-stars-mum-urges-atp-to-step-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Rune still receiving ‘death threats’ as tennis star’s mum urges ATP to step in"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Holger Rune\u2019s mum has revealed that the world No 6 is still receiving \u201cdeath threats\u201d weeks after Rune\u2019s sister urged people to stop sending hateful messages to the family. Aneke Rune is also her son\u2019s manager and explained that they had to take some of the more serious threats to the police as she urged the ATP to block the negative messages.<\/p>\n

Rune\u2019s sister Aneke recently took to Instagram to address threats the family had received, explaining that they had previously involved the police and would continue to do so. Their mother has now addressed the worrying messages, revealing that the four-time title winner was still getting death threats from faceless accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cI read a lot of analysis about the social media. We cannot get rid of it because it\u2019s part of the interaction for young people, which is good,\u201d Aneke told the ATP Tennis Radio Podcast. \u201cIt\u2019s a way for the fans to interact with their idols, which is super good. The bad thing about social media is, there are so many fake accounts that write s***.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rune\u2019s mum and agent explained that she didn\u2019t mind seeing her son receive constructive criticism from a real person but her issue came when people created fake accounts to send threats. She continued: \u201cIf it was like an honest profile saying, \u2018I dislike what you do,\u2019 then it\u2019s fair.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut, in nine out of 10, it\u2019s like fake profiles that go write whatever they like. And it\u2019s a really nasty thing – it can be death threats, it can be a lot of bad things they write. Normally we block all this, so he doesn\u2019t have to see it, and the rest of them, we go to the policemen \u2013 there are some serious threats once in a while, and they are quite serious about it, they follow it through.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Rune\u2019s family had been taking matters into their own hands, Aneke still wanted to see the ATP step up when it came to comments being left on social media profiles run by the men\u2019s tennis tour. \u201cIt should be possible to make someone responsible,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf ATP runs an Instagram site, they should be able to block whatever is hate. Hate is not part of the serious debate. I think the one who runs the site has an obligation to block these ones out.\u201d<\/p>\n