The blue derby in Stuttgart belongs to Matteo Berrettini. The Roman tennis player takes the second final of his season by force after the one in Marrakech (won), clearly winning the match with Lorenzo Musetti. A balanced first set, a second entirely on the side of the 2021 Wimbledon finalist, who with this 6-4 6-0 he climbs even further in the rankings and prepares to face a ‘grasshopper’ like Jack Draper to win the German tournament for the third time in his career.
It doesn’t take long to break the balance of the game. Berrettini started in a somewhat foul manner and immediately granted a break point to Lorenzo, canceled out with the usual service-forehand pattern. And the wasted opportunity creeps into the head of the boy from Carrara, who makes a couple of mistakes in the third game. Matteo attacking the net gets the break point, realized by Musetti’s wide forehand. The fraction seems to proceed comfortably on the Roman’s side until he finds a set point in response: there Muso defends himself and with a streak of six points in a row he has three chances for the counterbreak. Berrettini doesn’t tremble and cancels them with San Servizio, finishing in thirty-eight minutes.
Ready to go and the Roman understands that he can immediately get his hands on the match. And he decides to accommodate the situation, making the exchange worse and getting an immediate break point, converted thanks to the powerful response on Lorenzo’s serve and volley. And in the next two games we have almost a carbon copy of the situation: Berrettini starts badly on serve and recovers from 0-30, then in response he has the right ability to read Musetti’s too much haste, taking the double break. And practically the match ends there: Musetti no longer has the strength to react, suffers a third break in a hard-fought fifth game and leaves the field free to the Roman.
Who prevails above all thanks to his ability to survive in the final of the first set. Four break points cancelled, three in a row, in a match in which he conceded thirteen break points overall.
