Berrettini, double denial unfortunately makes it all official: there is no hope, it’s over for good now.
He played professional tennis. Then, he coached newcomers and wrote pages and pages about the sport he loves so unconditionally. He has even lent his voice, on several occasions, to the telling of the best matches, commenting on the matches with a critical eye and, above all, with great expertise. Luca Bottazzi has earned, therefore, the right to talk about what happens on the circuit. And also to disquisition about the players of the moment, see Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini.
So much so that he did, just in the past few days, with Mowmag. Unsparingly, unabashedly. He said everything that was on his mind, even at the risk of contradicting all the other experts in the field who, like him, often make judgments and predictions about the Tour’s most renowned tennis players.
In the first phase of the interview, he expressed himself about Sinner and his withdrawal from the Madrid tournament, dictated by a hip problem, in these terms: “He is almost always right, so he did well because the season will be very challenging. If he had gone to the bottom of the Madrid tournament he would not have played Rome. Because he wants to be world No. 1, there are two tournaments that are sand in the gears for him and they are the Rome tournament and the Olympics. Those are two tournaments that break his balls. The problem is that if it breaks he doesn’t become one. He even in this condition would have easily won Madrid, but that would have meant missing the Rome and Paris tournaments because he would have been shattered. “
Berrettini and that stand-in: ruthless Bottazzi
After that, Mowmag invited him to comment on what Federico Ferrero has said, in recent days, about Berrettini, when he said that the only dilemma about the Roman is not about his abilities, but “how long he will be able to stay well. “
“Ferrero as always discovers hot water – this is the response of Bottazzi, author of Break Point – Berrettini today looks to me like a stand-in for Berrettini who played at Wimbledon. That depends on injuries and I don’t know if it also depends on an adequate lifestyle to regain the top ten. Already he is now a step up from the last two years because he at least gets on the court. I’m not a magician but I feel safe to say that he in the top ten is never going back.”
With a single sentence he contradicted Ferrero himself, who is certain that in any case Matteo can soon return to the levels of the past, and Paolo Bertolucci, who as we had told you here is convinced that the Roman will return to the top-20 as soon as possible. But you know: tennis, just like love, is not beautiful if it is not quarrelsome…
