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The Italian derby doesn’t have to happen. After Andrea Vavassori, there won’t be another blue in the way Jannik Sinner towards the semifinal of the Master 1000 in Miami. It will in fact be the Czech Thomas Machac the opponent in the quarterfinals of the South Tyrolean tennis player, who rather clearly beat a dull player Matteo Arnaldi.
A bad day for the Ligurian player, who was unable to display his usual determination, throwing away the possibility of playing his first quarter-final in a ‘1000’.
A double 6-3 in favor of the 23-year-old Czech, who thus celebrated his entry into the Top 50. At the end of the match, a disappointed Arnaldi commented on his poor performance, saying he was excited for the season on European clay.
The words of Matteo Arnaldi
The 23-year-old Italian analyzed his swing journey on American hard courts. “It was a growing trip; in Delray Beach and Los Cabos I wasn’t feeling great but little by little things improved… in Acapulco and Indian Wells I played very well, and here I got my best result in a thousand.
Since I was little I’ve been lucky enough to assimilate quite quickly, I’m able to learn from the matches I play. This gives me confidence and makes me feel confident about the future. I’m not happy with today’s performance, but I will also learn from this match” declared Arnaldi.
The match against Machac was disappointing for the blue. “There’s little to say about the match, it doesn’t often happen to me that I lose in straight sets. I even had a few opportunities to find my tennis again but I didn’t succeed.
It’s part of tennis, there can be days like that. In the last two days I haven’t been very well, a little tired, muscle pain, the classic symptoms of the flu. Even with Shapovalov I wasn’t well but I still managed to take it home, today however I wasn’t able to find my tennis and he was good at not letting me find it” explained the current number 38 in the ranking.
Now the tour shifts to red: “Now I’ll go home and take a couple of days to get back to 100%. I will do the whole season on clayMonteCarlo, Barcelona, Madrid, Rome and Paris.
I will finally go back to playing in tournaments that I already know; I’m pleased, I know the conditions and this will help me.”
