Matteo Berrettini

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[7] Matteo Berrettini d. [14] Hubert Hurkacz 6-3 6-0 6-7(3) 6-4

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Berrettini Seals Historic Wimbledon Final Berth With Hurkacz Victory

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First Italian in Wimbledon final awaits Djokovic or Shapovalov
In a battle of first-time Wimbledon semi-finalists, it was seventh seed Matteo Berrettini who held his nerve and rose to the occasion against Hubert Hurkacz. The Italian became the first player – man or woman – from his country to reach the singles final at The Championships after an emphatic 6-3, 6-0, 6-7(3), 6-4 victory on Friday.

The seventh seed, who also reached the 2019 US Open semi-finals, did not lose his serve across four sets and saved both of the break points he faced on Centre Court. Berrettini blasted 60 winners, including 22 aces, as he powered his way to his first Grand Slam final.

"I have no words, really, just thanks. I need a couple of hours to understand what happened," Berrettini said on court. "I played a great match. I enjoyed the crowd, my family and whole team are there. I think I never dreamed about this, because it was too much for a dream. I am so happy... Nothing [to say], grazie."

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He will next challenge the winner of World No. 1 Novak Djokovic or 10th seeded lefty Denis Shapovalov as he seeks to keep making Italian history at Wimbledon. A victory at the end of the fortnight would make him the first Italian man to lift a Grand Slam trophy since Adriano Panatta’s 1976 triumph at Roland Garros.

Italian Men In Grand Slam Finals (all-time)

Player Finals Reached
Nicola Pietrangeli (4) 1959-61, 1964 Roland Garros
Matteo Berrettini (1) 2021 Wimbledon
Adriano Panatta (1) 1976 Roland Garros
Giorgio de Stefani (1) 1934 Roland Garros
The 25-year-old has enjoyed a strong grass-court season, after claiming the Serbia Open title and reaching the Mutua Madrid Open final (l. to Zverev) on clay. The Italian didn’t miss a beat as he switched surfaces, building up an 11-match winning streak starting with his victory at the cinch Championships at the Queen’s Club, his first ATP 500 trophy.

Berrettini carried that momentum into the All England Club, where he raced into his second Grand Slam semi-final after taking down good friend and 16th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in four sets.

Hurkacz, who had to score a career-best victory over World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev and childhood idol Roger Federer, the sixth seed, en route to the last four, came out of the gate flat-footed and struggled to recover ground as Berrettini got going on Centre Court.


The seventh seed regularly followed his booming serve with a deadly forehand, where he earned 30 of his winners. He kept the points short with his first strikes and did not allow Hurkacz to move up the court to close points at the net. Berrettini bossed the baseline exchanges, keeping the pressure on Hurkacz’s serve.

From 3-3, Berrettini reeled off four games in a row to clinch the first set, and another six went unanswered as Hurkacz quickly found himself down two sets to love after just 58 minutes. The Pole got back on the scoreboard in the third set, but struggled to find inroads into Berrettini’s service games.

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In the tie-beak, Berrettini netted a putaway volley having had the open court as Hurkacz went 4/0 ahead, opening the door for Pole’s comeback. But he didn’t let Hurkacz run away with the momentum, pouncing on second serves to start the fourth set with an early break. Berrettini kept his nose in front, and closed out the victory after two hours and 36 minutes.

"When you play at this level everything has to be... I am trying to be the best at everything, but after the third set I was feeling I deserved to win it but lost it," Berrettini said. "I said, 'It doesn't matter.' I was feeling the stronger player and that's what I said to myself, and eventually it paid off."

Did You Know?
Berrettini is the eighth Italian player, man or woman, to reach a Grand Slam singles final – after Pietrangeli (4 appearances), Francesca Schiavone (2), and de Stefani, Sara Errani, Panatta, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci (all one).

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Berrettini On Italy's Super Sunday: 'I Want To Get The Trophy Now'

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Footballers play England on Sunday night in European championships final
When Matteo Berrettini held aloft the solid silver cinch Championships trophy three weeks ago, BBC television presenter Sue Barker pointed out that he was the first debutant at The Queen’s Club to lift the trophy since Boris Becker in 1985. The Italian could only smile.

“Maybe he stepped into Wimbledon and he thought about making the final,” said Berrettini on Friday. “I didn't think like that. I knew I could do it, but I didn't think I [was] going to do it, because that is how I am. I took every step really careful and slowly. I guess it was the right thing to do.”

Today, Berrettini is riding an 11-match winning streak on grass and is one victory away from following in the footsteps of the 17-year-old German wunderkind, who went on to lift the Wimbledon title for the first time. “Obviously the job is not done yet,” said Berrettini. “I want to get the trophy now that I'm here. But it's just [a] really unbelievable feeling.”

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On Friday, the 25-year-old became the first Italian man to reach a Grand Slam final since Adriano Panatta won the 1976 Roland Garros crown, following a 6-3, 6-0, 6-7(3), 6-4 over Polish 14th seed Hubert Hurkacz.

“I’m just so happy for everything,” said Berrettini, who has been in regular contact with Panatta. “My year started in a good way, [by helping Italy reach] the ATP Cup final. Then I got injured again. I kind of saw those ghosts again of my body kind of struggling. Again, I came back stronger. I think I fully deserve to be here. I want to enjoy [it] like I did today.”

Berrettini is up to third position in the FedEx ATP Race To Turin for one of eight singles spots at the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held at the Pala Alpitour from 14-21 November. Since returning from a hernia/groin injury in mid-April, Berrettini has compiled a 24-4 match record, including the Serbia Open title in Belgrade (d. Karatsev) and a runner-up finish in his first ATP Masters 1000 final at the Mutua Madrid Open (l. to Zverev).

The charismatic World No. 9 is now hoping that it will be a ‘Super Sunday’ for Italy when he competes in the Wimbledon final and the football team challenges England for the European Championship title.

“Hopefully, whoever's going to win, they're going to support me — I hope,” said Berrettini, looking ahead to playing World No. 1 Novak Djokovic. “It's going to be a great atmosphere. My first final in Wimbledon. It's just crazy to think about it.

“It's [a] great day, [a] great sports day. I'm really happy that, together with football now, we are one of the biggest sports in Italy.”

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Berrettini, who with his brother, Jacopo, always dreamed of playing in a big final, has got his wish.

“When we were kids, we were going holiday, we were always bringing our racquets,” said Berrettini. “We played so many times, even without the ball, just pretending we were playing in our living room [in] a great final. We were pretending to be players that now I'm playing against.

“I couldn't, unfortunately, for bubble reasons, meet them. I saw them from far away. My brother, I never saw him like that. He couldn't believe it. That's where we're coming from. That's my family. That's our passion… Tennis is in my family. My grandparents are still playing. It's something we have in DNA, and it makes me feel so good to have them here.”

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Bardzo fajny progres w tym roku. Pierwszy finał m-1000, pierwsza wygrana 500 (queens), a teraz pierwszy finał WS.

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Berrettini's Wimbledon Final 11 Years In The Making: Coaches’ Corner

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The pair has worked together since Berrettini was 14

Italian star Matteo Berrettini has broken new ground at Wimbledon this year. The 25-year-old overcame 14th seed Hubert Hurkacz to reach his first Grand Slam final on Friday.

Victory over five-time champion Novak Djokovic on Centre Court will complete Berrettini’s journey to the top of the sport, and there will be one man in particular, coach Vincenzo Santopadre, who will be bursting with pride.

Santopadre has worked alongside Berrettini as his coach for 11 years, helping the World No. 9 win five tour-level titles and develop into the player he has become today. It is a deep-rooted relationship, built on respect and admiration, with the Italian duo like family.

Ahead of Sunday’s final, ATPTour.com caught up with Santopadre about his work with Berrettini and the key behind their success.

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How special has it been for you to watch Matteo reach his first Grand Slam final?
It is a dream, it is unreal, it is a lot to process. But I told him after, that I think if he can play like this, he can win Wimbledon. It is a dream that can come true. The unbelievable thing, which I told him after the match when we met, it was a real surprise.

You have been working with Matteo for more than a decade, so how much more emotional does that make this achievement for you?
It is unbelievable. We grew up together. Everyone in the team – me, the physio, the trainer, the mental coach – we have been working with Matteo for 11 years. It is a long time, it is special. I still had hair when I started working with him and I don’t know if it is the passing of the years as to why I have lost my hair or because of watching him play every match! I was so young, and he was a child, and now, I am not yet an old man, but he grew, and is a man. It is something really special because we have spent a lot of time together, so many years.

This is a very big moment for him, so how difficult will it be for him to block that pressure out and get him to treat this like any other match?
On Friday after his victory, I asked him, and I spoke to the mental coach. The mental coach said he was tight and felt the pressure. But we really think this is normal. A player has to feel the pressure, of course. It is not easy to turn it around to make it a positive vibe, and positive adrenaline, but he is able to do this. He is able to feel the pressure and with the passing of the points, he is always able to get into the match and it is something that is unbelievable. The match he played on Friday, he showed great power, dominating the court.

Ajla [Tomljanovic] told us that Matteo’s game is great, but that his mentality is even better. How much has he improved that over the years?
The key to his career is that he is always trying to improve. He is working to be better day by day. He is not missing any shots in training and has improved much more than everybody expected, me and him too. No one could say two or three years ago that he was going to become such a champion.

For me, you are a champion when you are able to work to be better and able to work like he does. He knows everything. He is aware he gave a big part of his life to be better, and it is not only about natural talent but work [ethic] too. He is a champion. I want to be humble, but the message is that Matteo can be a role model.

From all the years you have spent together, what is the best decision you have made with Matteo’s game?
We were able to build a complete player. In my opinion, a lot of coaches try to specialise players too soon when they are young. Instead, when Matteo was young, aged 14, 15, 16 years-old, we wanted to build a player who could play on every surface. We wanted him to be able to play attacking and defensive tennis, have every shot, such as a backhand slice. I think he is a complete player.

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Buy a nice TV for a special Sunday says Berrettini

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Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini looks forward to an Italian tennis and football double

If you live in Italy and you have a few extra euro knocking about, maybe lost down the back of the sofa, you might want to invest them in an electrical company.

If you only have a small chair and not much loose change, then invest in your local electrical appliance shop. Because if Matteo Berrettini is right, television sales are about to go through the roof.

On Sunday, the quietly-spoken giant from Rome will walk out on to Centre Court at 2pm. He will be the first Italian man to play in a Wimbledon final and he is hoping that his thundering serve and crunching forehand will demolish whoever is standing on the other side of the net.

And then, six hours later, the Azzurri will stride onto the Wembley turf and attempt to do the same to England in the final of Euro 2020. His advice to his countrymen back home was simple.

“I will tell them to buy a nice TV if they don't have already because I think it's going to be a special Sunday for all of us,” he said. “It's something crazy to believe for us, obviously let's say tennis, because it never happen. So it's something that nobody expected - me in first place.


“Then for football, because we came from – I mean, we didn't qualify for the World Cup, so after that the job that they did, how hard they worked, the effort that they put, I think they really deserve this finals.

“Obviously I'm going to think first about mine. I think the schedule is going to come first. Then probably, if I have the chance, I'm going to watch them.”

He reached his final by bombarding Hubert Hurkacz with howitzers of serves and by battering him with forehand after forehand, leathering the ball into places the Pole could not imagine, much less reach.

Only when it came to the third set tie-break did he get tight. But then, as calm as it seems impossible for an Italian to be while standing at the door of his first Grand Slam final, he took control of the fourth set to win 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3), 6-4.

“Things are all over the place,” he said a couple of hours later, still trying to get his head around what he had just done. “At the same time I think I handled the situation pretty well. I step in the court, I was feeling confident. I knew that I could win the match. I think I played my best match so far.

“So I'm really happy for my performance. Especially after the third set, everything was kind of -- I felt I could win that set, also win the match, but didn't happen. I said to myself, You're playing better than him, so keep going like this and you're going to win.”

Of course, everyone kept asking him what it felt like to be the first Italian to be in the final (everyone likes a bit of history to put in a headline). As questions go, this one left Berrettini nonplussed.

“It would have felt great even if I wasn't the first Italian,” he said looking puzzled. “First Slam finals. I don't know. I'm just so, so happy for everything. My year started in a good way, with the finals in ATP Cup. Then I got injured again. I kind of saw those ghosts again of my body kind of struggling [he had a serious groin injury last year].

“Again, I came back stronger. I think I fully deserve to be here. I want to enjoy like I did today. I want to enjoy my first final. Whoever's going to win today, I just appreciate what's happening. So I'm very happy.”

Hurkacz was happy enough, too. He had taken a hiding and he knew it but, then again, the way Berrettini was playing, he didn’t think he could have done much else.

“Matteo was playing really, really well,” Hurkacz said. “I mean, he was putting a lot of pressure on me. My serve, first serve, really wasn't helping me, which usually it does and gets me out of trouble. I was struggling with that. Plus, he was putting a lot of pressure on me and he was playing really amazing without doing any unforced errors.

“I was trying to stay competitive and fight for every single point especially at the beginning of the third set to try to make a comeback.

“Matteo played pretty great. I mean, he served bombs. if he continues to play like this, he has really big chance in the final.”

Ah, yes: Berrettini and grass court finals. So far, he has been in two – Queen’s Club last month and Stuttgart in 2019 – and won both times. He has increased his winning streak on the green stuff to 11 matches this year and he has won 151 of 158 service games on grass this year. Best go out and buy that new telly before it all starts on Sunday.

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Finał Wimbledonu.

Matteo ma za sobą najlepszy turniej w dotychczasowej karierze. W finale wielkoszlemowego Wimbledonu po 4 setach musiał jednak uznać wyższość Novaka Djokovicia. 25-letni Włoch ma na koncie 8 zawodowych finałów (5-3).


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Matteo Berrettini - przegrane finały (3):
2021 (2) Wimbledon, ATP Masters 1000 Madryt
2019 (1) Monachium

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Swoją dziewczynę też wspierał.

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Berrettini: ‘My Level Is Growing’

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The seventh seed is delighted with where his game is at despite defeat
Seventh-seeded Italian Matteo Berrettini was focused on the bigger picture, believing his game is on the right path for future success after his four-set defeat to Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon final on Sunday.

“The most important thing for me is that right now I'm losing against the best players in the world. In Paris, I lost against him [Djokovic], and he won the tournament,” Berrettini said. “In Queen's, I won, and then I lost against him again here. It means that my level is growing. It means my weapons and my tennis, in general, is growing. That's the right path. That's the right thing that I'm doing.

“It means that I'm there. It means that I deserve to be here. Today, again, Novak was the better player on court, but I'm getting closer. Every match that I'm playing against them helps me to get closer.”

Berrettini came into the contest on the back of an 11-match winning streak after winning the cinch Championships in London in June.

The 25-year-old became the first Italian man to reach a Grand Slam final since Adriano Panatta won the 1976 Roland Garros title. The 2019 US Open semi-finalist feels the experience of the last month can only help him in the future.

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“I just need matches like this. I just need experiences like this,” Berrettini said. “That's what we said to my team. Obviously, also this kind of anger, disappointment that I have now, it's really helpful, is going to be helpful for the next events.

“Obviously for me, it's been unbelievable two weeks. I won Queen's. I didn't expect to win there. I reached the finals here. But I know that I can do it. I know that I can win this title.

“I'm not sure if I'm going to do it, but I know I can do it. So that's what I'm going to do in the next weeks, in the next months and years: try to lift the trophy.”

After falling 2-5 behind in the first set, Berrettini rallied, saving a set point to claim the opener and lead the World No. 1. However, he could not keep Djokovic at bay.

While he was slightly disappointed with his performance level overall on Centre Court, he praised the Serbian's ability to make it difficult for him.

“Obviously now I'm disappointed because I lost, because I think I didn't play my best match,” Berrettini admitted. “But I have to say it's thanks to Novak in a way that he brought me, made me play in this way. That's his strength probably. That's why he's one of the best that ever did.

“I would say tactic-wise, he's probably the best player together with Roger. He's studying your game, and then he is kind of adjusting during the match. It's not something really easy to do.

“He played his 30th final today and I played my first one. He knew how to handle all the feelings and emotions that he had. This is something that it's normal. That's why I said I need matches like this. Congrats to him.”

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Berrettini Closes In On Turin Spot

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Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime make significant moves
Matteo Berrettini improved his chances of qualifying for the 2021 Nitto ATP Finals, to be held at the Pala Alpitour in Turin from 14-21 November, after a series of strong grass-court performances that culminated in the Italian reaching the Wimbledon final.

The 25-year-old saw his 11-match winning streak come to an end at the hands of Novak Djokovic, who won a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam trophy on Sunday at the All England Club. Berrettini has jumped up four places to third in the FedEx ATP Race To Turin.

Having qualified for the Nitto ATP Finals in 2019 and served as an alternate last year, Berrettini has 3,505 points in the year-to-date standings, behind only five-time former champion Djokovic (7,170) and 2019 titlist Stefanos Tsitsipas (4,570). The Roman captured his fifth ATP Tour title at the cinch Championships in London (d. Norrie) last month prior to becoming the first Italian man to reach a Grand Slam final since Adriano Panatta at 1976 Roland Garros.

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Two players who reached the semi-finals at The Championships, Poland’s Hubert Hurkacz (2,190) and Canadian Denis Shapovalov (1,635), also made significant moves in the FedEx ATP Race To Turin.

Hurkacz, who beat Daniil Medvedev and Roger Federer at the grass-court major, has risen three places to eighth position, returning to the kind of form that helped him capture his first ATP Masters 1000 title in April at the Miami Open presented by Itau (d. Sinner). Shapovalov beat Andy Murray en route to the Wimbledon last four and has moved up to 10th place after a 12-spot rise. He is just 150 points behind Russian Aslan Karatsev, who sits in ninth (1,785).

Berrettini leads fourth-placed Russian Andrey Rublev (3,250) by 255 points, with 2018 Nitto ATP Finals winner Alexander Zverev (3,195), defending champion Medvedev (3,020) and Rafael Nadal (2,940) all firmly established in the Top 8 of the FedEx ATP Race To Turin.

Jannik Sinner, the 19-year-old Italian, also remains in strong contention to qualify for the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time and sits one spot outside of the eight automatic qualification berths (1,510). Another #NextGenATP star, Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada, who lost to his good friend Berrettini in the Wimbledon quarter-finals, had moved up four positions to 13th on 1,365 points.

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