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Berrettini in history: he is in the final at Wimbledon

The company is momentous. Matteo Berrettini is in the history of Italian sport. He won the final at Wimbledon, beating the Polish Hubert Hurkacz. The end result is a sentence stamped in stone. 6-3, 6-0, 6-7, 6-4. A surge of pride and class was decisive, a definitive shot on the edge of the finish line, after having given the opponent the third set. A moment of défaillance, immediately redeemed by an aggressive reaction.

In the four sets Matteo played a tennis that is always aware, between deadly services and subnet embroidery and even in the most delicate moments she has been able to find within herself the energy to go back up.

That was his strength. This was the pedestal upon which he built the most sensational game of his career.

Berrettini is the first Italian to reach the final in the history of the tournament. At the center Court in Wimbledon the Roman lived his day of glory, finding the final consecration on a planetary level. No one would have imagined capable of pushing himself so high. Berrettini surprised everyone.

Talent is not enough in tennis. You need constancy, tenacity, work culture: these are the characteristics of our best tennis player of the moment, now ready to rise to the level of Nicola Pietrangeli, who stopped in the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1960, and Adriano Panatta, the two champion-models of tennis in Italy. In the end, the 25-year-old Roman’s staff was delighted, and the president of the Italian Tennis Federation, Angelo Binaghi, was enormously satisfied.

Berrettini going to play Wimbledon is the confirmation of the magical moment of Italian tennis, which brought 10 Azzurri to the top 100 of the ATP ranking. The final compensates Berrettini for all the sacrifices made in this year and a half, who has gone to get up after an injury, between the constraints of the lockdown and the difficulty of finding a balance. But Matteo made it. And he finished with two winning firsts.

In the final – the first Italian after 134 years of Wimbledon – Berrettini will face the winner of the match between Djokovic and Shapovalov on Sunday at 2.30pm. With access to the final, Berrettini becomes number 7 in the ATP ranking. After this exciting semi-final and a test of maturity, anything is really possible.

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