Matteo Berrettini unknowingly made a glaring mistake: it would have been better if he had kept it to himself,
The last few transfers, let’s face it, have not gone exactly as we had hoped. The fact that Matteo Berrettini, in the summer, had won two tournaments in a row, had left us to assume that the hammer was now definitely back. Starting the season on concrete, however, he has begun to limp a bit again. And, between false alarms – thankfully – and near injuries, he has failed to achieve the results he surely aspired to.
Since August, the 2021 Wimbledon finalist has failed to go beyond the second round. In Cincinnati he went out in the opener against Holger Rune, at the Us Open he was eliminated in the second act by Taylor Fritz. He played only two matches in Tokyo as well, from which, however, he withdrew because of an abdominal problem that then, thank goodness, resolved itself in no time. It was no better in Shanghai or even in Stockholm, reasoning that fans again fell into despondency.
All the more so because expectations on the eve of the Nordic Open were sky-high. Berrettini had played a great match against an excellent Darderi, but Stricker, 48 hours later, managed, alas, to unexpectedly put him in trouble. Minutes later, needless to say, detractors were on social mocking him, calling for retirement. As if such a choice was actually theirs to make and as if it would be so easy to get back on track after all the tripping that Matteo has received from fate.
Berrettini, glaring mistake: better to keep quiet
But there’s more. The tennis people were not only enraged by this unexpected defeat, but also by something Berrettini said during the Stockholm tournament.
a day with matteo pic.twitter.com/9volxijfj5
– chia (@berrelovers) October 17, 2024
In the past few days she filmed, for Vogue Scandinavia, her typical day, starting from the moment she woke up. She filmed every step, including breakfast. And, in hindsight, he would have done well to leave fans with the benefit of the doubt, rather than confess the unmentionable. Because this, for many, was a real snub.
We found out that the tennis player starts his day by eating eggs and yogurt and accompanying it with coffee. Which up to here would be normal, except that it is not an espresso, but an American. “Even though I am Italian,” he says in the video, ”I don’t mind a good American with a little milk. A full-blown betrayal that someone, we are sure, will have a hard time digesting…
