Matteo Berrettini He was playing a great match against German Alexander Zverev in the first match of Turin ATP Finals. Then terrible abdominal pain forced him to raise the white flag after losing 6-7 in the first set and dropping 0-1 in the second. Roman left the field with tears.
At first glance, the injury seemed rather serious. At the subsequent press conference, however, Berrettini wanted to keep flame of hope: “I like to be competitive and if I didn’t feel like I could win, I wouldn’t go into the field. Tomorrow I will be doing tests, hopefully encouraging. Hopefully it’s just a contraction, so I can work on it and try to be on the field on Tuesday, maybe even just 60%. Hope is the last to die, but at these levels it is difficult to return to the field after two days. The area is the same as the Australians, I don’t know if it is the exact same place; But I felt pain during the service movement, as at that time. The type of pain is not quite the same but hard to pronounce even tests“.
as it’s known, If the blue is forced to concede, compatriot Yannick Sener will take charge in the last two games of the red group., the first reserve of the tournament. South Tyrol will take on Russian Daniil Medvedev and Paul Hubert Hurkacz: two wins will likely be needed to hope for the semi-final (and it won’t be certain), but with a little luck one could be enough in the positive’s case. joints.
It certainly won’t be easy hours for either of them Filippo Volandri, captain of the Italian Davis Cup team. The big date is now close, on Friday November 26, again in Turin in the same building that hosts the ATP Finals, the Azzurri will face the United States in an already crucial competition not only for the passage of the Tour, but also to ensure that they themselves are a more elegant draw brought from Quarter-finals onwards.
The time to try to recover is very limited for Matteo Berrettini. The Roman admitted in this case that it would be difficult for him to defend the blue colors: “I’ve prioritized this tournament and will only focus on Davis after that, but obviously you have to think long-term as well, as you did in my career when I had injuries. It’s a mentally difficult situation to manage, I can’t help it and I don’t know who I can deal with.” If he fails to do so, Volandri will be forced to summon a replacement To support Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Sonego, Fabio Fognini and Lorenzo Musetti. If we look at the classification of ATP, the order of choice could be Gianluca Mager, No. 63. However, it is by no means excluded that the choice will fall on a pure multiplier, with Simon Bolelli (No. 26 in the Special Ranking) preferred to Andrea Favasori (No. 69).
Without Matteo Berrettini, Italy will see Davis Cup winning ambitions suddenly fall apart after 45 years. By organizing, in fact, Numbers 1 and Numbers 2 of individual teams are facing each other. In the original case, Sinner could have brought the point home with nearly all possible n.2 teams from other teams; On the other hand, if the South Tyrolean becomes No. 1, the matter will become more complicated and not a little, because Volandri will have to choose between Sonego and Fognini for the role of No. 2. Hence the importance of the option to double and the option of Bolelli which must be taken into account greatly.
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