Twelfth-seeded Holger Rune beat fifth-seeded Daniil Medvedev 7-6, 6-4 on Saturday to advance to the BNP Paribas Open final.

It turns out tennis players can grow up and change, even Holger Rune. Clearly tired of losing big matches to more accomplished players, Rune, the 21-year-old from Denmark who has yet to fulfill the promise of his first seasons,

After a tightly contested first set, which lasted over an hour, Rune maintained the momentum to get an early break in the second before going on to seal a 7-5 6-4 victory