Atp 250 of Naples, Berrettini: “Here to chase the Finals of Turin”

To put it to Rocky Balboa, Matteo Berrettini seems to have arrived at the Naples tournament with the “eyes of the tiger”. He likes the atmosphere, he likes the pitch, and above all he likes to think that the Turin Finals are still possible. “Of course I believe it, until the math says the opposite I believe it – he said in his first press conference in Campania -. I have three tournaments ahead including this one, I know it’s very difficult but I want to try. It’s been a year complicated, I play my cards but I don’t want to participate only for the Masters. There are other objectives, I want to do well here, where I never played even as a kid, but also in Vienna and Paris-Bercy where I never did, and if I manage to finish close to the top ten it would already be a good result, it means that I ended the year in the right way, even if in this 2022 there were still some important results “.

Atmosphere

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Berrettini took the field for a first training session, together with Lorenzo Musetti (“a great tennis player, once I was the young Italian”, says Matteo) to the delight of the fans present at Campo D’Avalos, ready after the well-known problems of last few days, to immediately test the field in Naples: “The conditions are quite similar to those of Florence, it is not indoor and it is not very fast but I liked it. They told us to play closer to the field, for me there is no it’s a problem, since I don’t run so much – he says -. I liked the crowd, the applause, the screams, the atmosphere in general seems very charged “. Matteo then talks about his very close relationship with the city: “My father’s brother lives here, my little cousin grew up here, I visited the city when I could, the fact that there is a tournament here helps, it is obvious that it’s not like when you are here on vacation, but Naples is a city that I love and that is easy to love. I came here 4 years ago, it was all different, it is amazing how much it has changed and it is incredible what we have done together with my team . The cazzimma, the one I recommended to Djokovic? Of course I have it, otherwise I wouldn’t have arrived here. ” The debut Thursday against the Spaniard Carballes Baena (n.75 ATP) who defeated him last week in Florence: “Eh, let’s say that the first match is already tough, let’s hope it goes better …”.