Matteo Berrettini makes comeback and goes to semifinals in Phoenix

Matteo Berrettini makes comeback and goes to semifinals in Phoenix

Matteo Berrettini è into the semifinals of the Phoenix Cement Challenger. The returning 27-year-old from Rome, who dropped to world number 154, beat Frenchman Terence Atmane, number 136, in the quarterfinals with a score of 3-6 7-6 7-6 in nearly three hours of play.

There were three breaks in the entire match, two were suffered by Berrettini and the first, in the fourth game of the match, cost him è the peimo set, while the second one he suffered in the fifth game of the second set but then, fortunately, he immediately recovered.

Matteo then dominated the tie-break winning it 7-1, while the decisive one, full of minibreaks, he won it 8-6 on the second match point without conceding any to his opponent. In the semifinals, Berrettini will meet Australia’s Aleksandar Vukic, the tournament’s No. 7 seed and world No. 69.