“You’ve got nothing to say now?” Holger Rune and Stan Wawrinka have another frosty post-match exchange

Stan Wawrinka called Holger Rune a “baby on the court” after their first encounter, last November at the Paris Masters.

After their second match, Monday at Indian Wells, the Swiss veteran didn’t call the young Dane anything, but Rune didn’t like that very much either.

There was clearly some bad blood heading into today’s third-round collision at the BNP Paribas Open, which you could detect from the crowded Stadium 2 and the intensity of the competitors. And the drama carried over into the quality of play, in a match that saw Rune save a match point in the second set, then recover from a 0-4 tiebreak deficit to force a decider.

The third set remained too close to call until Wawrinka staged a rally of his own to break Rune at 5-5, before serving out the match to prevail, 6-2, 6-7 (5), 7-5.

But the drama was only getting started.