Blue day at the country in the first Masters 1000 on the red: Lorenzo with BU at 13.30, Matteo in the afternoon. It is also up to Fognini, champion 2019
Saluta Arnaldi, beaten in three sets from a Richard Gasquet to the last show, inside museums and caps. Montecarlo is the most Italian red tournament outside the national borders. It will be because a stone’s throw from the border of Ventimiglia, it will also be because most of the blue tennis players and their agents reside there, the Masters 1000 that opens the season of the great tournaments on red is always crowded with Italian fans. On the second day there are three Italian protagonists: in addition to the muzzle and cap there is also Fabio Fognini who from Wild Card faces Francisco Cerundolo on the field that had seen him triumph in 2019.
Raise
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Berrettini at the country never took great satisfaction, on the contrary, the last time he had been injured for the umpteenth time opening a painful period, physically and not. Tomorrow, in the third match on the central field, around 4 pm, the Roman number 3 blue begins his journey against Mariano Navone, a qualified Argentine that Matteo himself had beaten on Marrakech’s red in the semifinal last year. A particularly sweet memory since the title then went to the blue, the first trophy raised after two years of various suffering. But now it is time to turn the page, think of smiles and archive the pains, trying to bury them under the red earth: “Historically February and March there were not profitable months for me, this time I arrive with important results behind us – he told the microphones of Sky Sport -. I want to enjoy the red. In Montecarlo I live there, there are many Italians who come to support us. Last year I won three tournaments on the ground, I grew up on the ground, My game adapts well. After Navone, if he should overcome the turn, he would have a challenge with Zverev that is worth double. Test yourself with the number 2 in the world, direct opponent of the good times and above all stop the attempt to hook the throne of Sinner. At the first defeat, in fact, the German would lose every chance to snatch the number 1 in Jannik before the international.
Top 10
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If Berrettini wants to start from Montecarlo for the run -up to the first 20 in the world, Lorenzo Musetti feels the scent of the top ten but above all the air of the house, where he lives with Ludovico and Veronica, his family. On the red land of country Lorenzo in 2023 he conquered an important victory against Novak Djokovic, of those that give you the push to go on hunting for results that change your career. “Monaco is a part of me – said the number 16 -, I have lived here for more than five years, I have my family here, I have many friends, so much followed. I feel at home, second only in Rome at the public level. I don’t know whether to use it as a springboard, but at least review a nice Lorenzo on the first tournament on earth. The ranking is good but now you know that I want to enter the elite”. The first step is to overcome the Chinese Bu, number 67 of the world, in the second match on Ranieri III around 13.30 (direct Sky).
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