Since his return after the operation on his hand, for which he was detained for three months, Matteo Berrettini slipped his ninth consecutive win which brought him his second trophy of the Queen’sthe Queen’s club, the antechamber of Wimbledon. “There are really too many emotions. The last thing I expected was to win two tournaments in a row after a right hand surgery and three months out. I don’t want to cry, I will try not to do it … ». It is not the tears that speak. His smile says it all. He says of the injury and the return, he says of the hope of repeating a year like the past one which, after this trophy, saw him in the final on the most important grass of all.
For Berrettini it is the seventh title of his career. He has made 10 finals and four hits on grass. At Queen’s he never lost. A week ago the triumph in Stuttgart. Matteo seems to have acquired a more concrete and concentrated tennis player with the stop lucidity. In two weeks he made very little mistakes and won the first two tournaments he presented himself to: the ATP 250 in Stuttgart and this ATP 500 in London. In two sets he beat world number 48, Serbian Filip Krajinovic (7-5, 6-4). “Every time I get to the Club, I get lost first … Then I get to the corridor where all the winners are and I see myself with people like McEnroe, Connors Becker … It’s an honor and a privilege.”
The horizon says Wimbledon, from 11 in the world because having missed so much season does not help. The London tournament will not give points, an ATP choice given the exclusion of Russians and Belarusians, but the prestige remains. Matteo Berrettini is the eighth seeded behind Djokovic, winner last year, Nadal, Ruud, Tsitsipas, Alcaraz, Auger-Aliassime and Hurkacz. Few on this list are more herbivores than he is. «In the meantime, I enjoy this incredible start, the best I could ever have imagined. Then we see…”.
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Source: Vanity Fair
