A high number of unforced errors proved costly for the second-seeded Holger Rune who crashed out of the ATP-250 tournament in Buenos Aires late Thursday night CET in his first match against Argentine Mariano Navone who won 6-1, 7-6 against the otherwise favored Dane.

Holger Rune lost his first match in Buenos Aires, where he was up against a hostile Argentine crowd who did everything to unsettle the young Dane against their local favorite. 

The match ended 6-1, 7-6 in Navones favor.

Throughout the match, the Dane was under heavy pressure during decisive sequences from the crowd who did their utmost to disturb his concentration. At the end of the second set, Rune also addressed a certain spectator and later confronted the referee in order to get the spectator removed from the arena.

After a first set, which Navone won 6-1 in just over half an hour, the second set turned into a more close encounter, where neither of the two managed to break each other’s serve.

Rune led 30-0 with the score locked at 5-5 in the second set, when the match was interrupted when a spectator had felt ill. The break lasted just under ten minutes before the game resumed, and Rune managed to keep his cool to secure the game.

The second set of the match ended in a tiebreak, with momentum in Navone’s favor and Rune finished the match with another costly unforced error which was symbolic of his performance in the Argentine capital Thursday night.