Italy of tennis rejoices. Matteo Berrettini achieves a feat and beats after four hours of match, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, 31st seeded in seeding. A victory that brings Matteo Berrettini to the second round of the Australian Open 2022, where he will face another Spanish tennis player: the n. 21 of the world Pablo Carreno Busta, who overtook the American Sebastian Korda by 6-4, 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-3.
Berrettini overtook Alcaraz with the result of 3-2 (2-6, 6-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7) in a contest fought until the last minute. Analyzing the game, the Spaniard had more aces (12-10), but alcaraz he also placed 8 double faults which proved important for the final result. The Spaniard's last double fault came after 4 hours and 10 minutes of battle, in which the tennis players were visibly exhausted. Another important fact of the match between Berrettini and Alcaraz are the 4 break points out of 13 converted from the class of 2003 against 3 out of 8 by the tennis player n. 7 in the world.
To report a beautiful moment of sportsmanship, as often seen in this wonderful sport, from which probably the football should take an example. At the beginning of the fifth set, the Roman tennis player fell causing a sprained ankle and two small cuts in his hand and elbow. Alcaraz immediately ran to help him.
Berrettini show: "he's good, I fought on every point"
So he spoke Berrettini at the end of the race: "Alcaraz will only get better by playing games like this. I was lucky to win today, Alcaraz is good. I felt confident in the third, a couple of games I was 0-30, I felt like I had the game in hand. But in tennis you snap your fingers and you run away. In the fourth set I lacked energy, but at the beginning of the fifth I only thought about fighting on every point. In every game it seems to me something has to happen, today the ankle. This is my body".
Atp ranking update: updates
With this important victory and the passage to the round of XNUMX rewards Matteo Berrettini (170 points more in the ATP ranking). Despite the important score obtained with today's victory, unfortunately at the moment Berrettini remains seventh in the standings, behind the Serbian Novak Djokovic, to the Russian Daniil Medvedev, the German Alexander Zverev, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Spanish Rafael Nadal and the Russian Andrey Rubles. If the latter were to exit in the third round, then the passage to the quarters would be enough for the blue to overtake him and move to sixth position in the standings. Below, the ranking in the top ten positions with updated scores.
- 1 Novak Djokovic (Serbia) 11015 (0)
- 2 Daniil Medvedev (Russia) 9015 (+80)
- 3 Alexander Zverev (Germany) 7780 (-190)
- 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas (Greece) 6540 (0)
- 5 Rafael Nadal (Spain) 4965 (+90)
- 6 Andrey Rublev (Russia) 4830 (+45)
- 7 Matteo Berrettini (Italy) 4738 (+170)
- 8 Casper Ruud (Norway) 4155 (0)
- 9 Felix Auger-Aliassime (Canada) 3653 (+45)
- 10 Jannik Sinner (Italy) 3435 (+45).
