Berrettini show in Gstaad, overwhelms Thiem and is in the final

The twelfth consecutive victory of Matteo Berrettini, unbeaten since his return to Stuttgart, brings the Roman to the third final (also this in a row) in less than two months. The blue number two to beat Dominic Thiem in the semifinal in Gstaad showed a capital performance, contrary to what happened yesterday with the Spaniard Martinez, when he found himself only two points from defeat. Berrettini defeated the Austrian, former world number three, with a score of 6-1 6-4, and awaits the winner of the other semifinal between the top seed of the tournament, the Norwegian Casper Ruud, and the Spaniard Ramos-Vinolas.

The match

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There was a lot of curiosity in seeing not only Matteo’s reaction after the troubled performance in his quarter-final, but also the performance of Thiem, who after a year and more has started to ring performances again, if not at the height of his ancient fame, at least interesting. It was not the case today: the winner of the Us Open 2020 had to bow to the superiority of Berrettini, which at times was overwhelming, especially in the first set, where ready-go, it was already 5-0 in favor of the Italian, who really did not do anything wrong in the first games of the match, leaving the Austrian in stone, massacred by the Roman’s deadly serve-forehand combination, in a total state of grace. After the partial ended easily at 6-1, in the second there was a minimum balance up to 2-2, when Berrettini put the top gear and with a series of very heavy blows he snatched the service from Thiem, up to move on to 5 -2, to then close 6-4. A clear and strong response came from Berrettini, who brought his level of play back up in less than 24 hours, showing that the Roman is there with his head, and how.

Confidence

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Winning the third tournament out of three, and on two different surfaces (grass and clay), would be a great show of strength by the blue number two, who has never hidden his desire to return to the top of the blue ranking, and certainly in the top 10. as soon as possible.