Berrettini, no one like him ever: he beat everyone without playing. Right now, there’s none for anyone.
Give him a green carpet, a racket and some balls and you will make him the happiest man on the face of the earth. The grass season has officially begun and it goes without saying that the spotlight is once again focused, as always at this time of year, on the true herbivore of the Bel Paese: Matteo Berrettini. Even more so since the planets have aligned and no impediment – but we obviously make the necessary warnings – should at this point force him to postpone his return to the field again.
Another two months have passed since he last played, but the fact that he is now competing on his favorite surface, the one that best suits his style of play, makes him the favorite once again. Last year, after all, he reached the round of 16 of Wimbledon even if bruised, which says a lot about how he wakes up at certain latitudes and how much good he wants to do in this albeit brief parenthesis of the season.
He will make his debut tomorrow morning at the Boss Open in Stuttgart against Roman Safiullin and only then will we discover what surprises the “green” chapter of the ATP calendar could possibly reserve for us. It being understood that, even without playing, Berrettini has already destroyed them all.
What a record Berrettini: no one like him ever
This statement may have left you dumbfounded, but it’s all true. We’re not talking about matches, obviously, but about record. And Matteo, it seems, holds a very flattering and extremely representative one, as if that wasn’t enough, of that talent and skill that some still persist in questioning. He got his revenge on him, let’s put it that way.
The Roman tennis player is the only one, up to this moment, to have managed to beat Carlos Alcaraz in a 5 set fight. It had happened, as fans will remember, to Australian Open 2022, when the two champions gave the public an epic, unforgettable match that lasted almost 5 hours. No one after him has managed to win in the fifth against the already multiple Slam champion, who a few hours ago won his third major, the one which, so he said, makes him proudest of all.
The poor man could do nothing against his fury Sascha Zverev, who did everything he could to bring home the title but who couldn’t keep up with the impressive pace of what he defined as “a beast”, in a good way of course. The record remains in the hands of Matteo Berrettini, therefore, and all the others are warned: it is better to avoid reaching fifth when playing against the phenomenon from Murcia…
This content was modified 10 June 2024 11:26
