The Italian tennis player Matteo Berrettini, after a hard-fought match against the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime, conquers the Wimbledon semifinal 2021. Berrettini managed to impose himself on the opponent with the final score of 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3. The last time an Italian tennis player (Nicholas Pietrangeli) played a semifinal in the famous British tournament was the 1960. Now Berettini has managed to equal the feat of Pietrangeli, with the hope of also arriving in final, if he manages to beat the Pole Hubert Hurkacz, fearsome opponent since he defeated Roger Federer right in the quarters.

The wonderful 2021 of the golden tennis player Matteo Berrettini

Class 1996, Matteo Berrettini is one of the most promising stars of Italian tennis. Just 2021 was quite an interesting year for the 25-year-old from Rome. Only a few weeks ago he managed to win the Queen's tournament, beating the British Cameron norrie, and thus becoming the first Italian to obtain this trophy. In April Berrettini had also won first place Atp 250 tournament in Belgrade. Last May 9 he also played the final of the Madrid Open, however, being defeated by the German Alexander Zverev. Finally atAustralian Open and Roland Garros 2021 di Paris had to stop (respectively) at the eighths and quarter finals. This season allowed Matteo Berrettini to get the fifth place in the ranking Race of the APT 2021. This could give him a probable qualification for the ATP Finals of Turin, in which i collide best 8 tennis players in the world.

Matteo Berrettini is al ninth place of the ATP world ranking (Association of Tennis Professionals). A possible final, as well as a victory in the tournament of Wimbledon 2021 could earn him another place on the leaderboard. The challenge with Hurkacz will be played Friday July 9. If he were to manage to beat the Polish tennis player, Berrettini could find the winner in the final among the other semifinal in which the Serbian will compete Novak Djokovic (number 1 of the ATP rankings) and the Canadian Denis Shapovalov. The road is all uphill for the Roman tennis player, but theItaly of sport in this 2021 it is reserving really big surprises. It doesn't happen, but if it happens ...

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Wimbledon: Berrettini in the semifinals, the first Italian in 61 years last edit: 2021-07-07T22:47:00+02:00 da Antonello Ciccarello

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