From the Djokovic factor to the new serve, from cheering for Inter to Fognini’s advice: secrets and perspectives of the blue who is surprising everyone at the US Open
Two years ago Matteo Arnaldi’s goal was to put himself on the world tennis map. It almost seemed like a utopia when the ranking saw him fluctuate between 800 and 900 in the ranking, very far from the big tournaments. If they had told the Flushing Meadows audience that two years later an Italian Matteo would have made a great impression at the US Open, everyone would have thought of Berrettini. Instead Arnaldi, 22, today has become a very strong tennis player, who knows how to invent and fight, who knows how to read the matches and who in a few months has shot up to number 61 in the standings (at the end of the tournament he will be much higher and is already 47 of the live rankings).
