Tremendous blow for Berrettini: the Italian tennis player was forced to close early at the Atp in Tokyo. But there’s another problem
He had won the first set Matteo Berrettini in the Tokyo Atp against Arthur Fils. But then due to an abdominal physical problem Matteo Berrettini had to raise the white flag.
There is no peace for the Italian, who not even at the moment when he really seems to have put all his problems behind him, falls back into the physical problems that have forced him in the last years of his career to say goodbye to several competitions and especially climb several positions, back, in the world rankings. A real shame because in this 2024 he had already won two Atp 250 tournaments and was hoping to raise the level. And it was seen that he was still fairly well in the first minutes of the match. But in the end he paid the price. A problem that, as mentioned, also puts something else in jeopardy. Davis Cup in Malaga.
Tremendous blow for Berrettini: Davis Cup at risk
The Gazzetta dello Sport indeed paints a picture of what could happen in the coming weeks: “Berrettini now risks jeopardizing the last part of the season, including the Malaga final. Precisely because it is a muscle tissue damage, he has been forced to live with this trouble since 2019 and only last year it was the main cause of the extended stop for the entire first half of the season. Worst ending? In a year in which he managed to put three tournaments (Marrakech, Gstaad and Kitzbuehel) plus the Bologna feat in Davis for the first time, it would be like stopping at the most beautiful, just a step away from the goal of re-entering the top 30 in the world.”
In short, it’s not a good moment, not something that can make Matteo’s fans rest easy. Who are hoping for a resounding recovery so they can see him in the Azzurri jersey defending that title that our national team unexpectedly won last year. And we know full well that repeating is always more difficult.
