Wimbledon 2023, Matteo Berrettini gets endless derby with Lorenzo Sonego

Wimbledon 2023, Matteo Berrettini gets endless derby with Lorenzo Sonego

It took Matteo Berrettini and Lorenzo Sonego three “bets” to end the all-Italian derby in the first round of Wimbledon, a rematch of the one played a few weeks ago in Stuttgart also on grass.

Well, Berrettini, who had lost outright on that occasion, really took the rematch by beating Sonego with the score of 6-7 6-3 7-6 6-3 after 3 hours and 20 minutes of actual play and finally qualifying for the second round, where he will face Australian Alex De Minaur.

It would be too long to summarize the scoring and breakdowns of this match, we will just say that today Berrettini made the decisive break in the sixth game after already having two break points in the fourth game and saving one in the third. Some thrills in the last game with the Roman saving another break point but then forcing the Turinese to surrender on the second match point.