For Matteo Berrettini, it was an indescribable emotion: he reacted in an unexpected way to this out-of-the-blue news.
They could not be more different than this, Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner. We are not referring to a question of game or titles, or even to the fact that the South Tyrolean is No. 1 in the world while the Roman stopped 5 steps from the top of the Atp ranking. The discourse is much broader than that. At the same time, however, they are “complementary. ”
Berrettini paved the way, in a way, for his friend Jannik’s success, making Italians rediscover the love of tennis. For this reason, although his career has not always been all roses, there are those who still continue to believe firmly in the talent of Matteo, who in 2021 took the tricolor to the final at Wimbledon for the first time. It cannot be said that he has not given us, too, strong emotions, so we are not at all surprised that, in the past few hours, he has received a real declaration of love.
In a video posted by the Tour’s official channel, the Roman hammer can be seen receiving a very long letter. A letter that has understandably excited him and made him happy at the same time, because it actually contains several sentences that could not do anything but enormously proud the blue tennis player.
Berrettini, the letter says it all: emotions a go-go
Writing it was one of his longtime fans, Nick, and it opens with the nicest of wishes a tennis player can expect to receive from one of his supporters.
“I hope you find everything you want and love” ️
This fan letter really hit us in the feels pic.twitter.com/qDSrgufm5o
– ATP Tour (@atptour) October 22, 2024
“I hope you can find everything you desire and love,” it says in the letter, which was enough to “move” the Roman champion who, at the highest moment of his career, reached the sixth step of the world rankings. It did not end there. This missive also says that Nick named his son Matteo just after his idol, after that athlete with whom he “fell in love” – sportingly speaking – on the occasion of the 2019 Us Open semifinal.
His dream, he confessed, is to see him play live, reasoning that Berrettini did not think twice before officially inviting him to one of the upcoming Tour events. With a heart swollen with gratitude and that usual, incomparable sparkle in his eyes.
