Matteo Berrettini: “Jannik Sinner gave me the inspiration to come back.”

Matteo Berrettini: "Jannik Sinner gave me the inspiration to come back"

Matteo Berrettini è ready to return to tennis, although his official return will only take place March 12-17 in the Phoenix challenger. And the Libero newspaper website reports how even a tennis player of less experience than his like Jannik Sinner has been spurring and inspiring him to return to play.

"With Jannik we write each other often, we are in touch and right now the fact that we are more united than ever from a sporting point of view gives me a great hand — said Berrettini —. Being close to him during the Davis Cup, it was a bubble effect for me and I am putting myself under for that. The secret of Italian tennis right now è that we help each other and stimulate each other".

"I am trying to take something from him, from what he does, from the routine to his approach — said again the 27-year-old from Rome —. È a source of pride to see an Italian who is up there but also a great boost. But seeing an Italian soì up, training and playing with me, makes me want to be thereì”.

Matteo Berrettini reached the sixth position in the world rankings in January 2022, six months after reaching the final at Wimbledon, where he lost to Novak Djokovic. He has won seven major circuit tournaments in his career, but has not played since the last US Open, when he injured his ankle, and is currently è number 129 in the world.