Matteo Berrettini is being superstitious on grass.

The words of Matteo Berrettini

Matteo Berrettini spoke after beating Canadian Denis Shapovalov in Stuttgart: "We both came from an injury stop and I am sure he will be back in the top 30 or top 20 soon, I wish him that. It’ was a perfect test to assess my level and after Tuesday’ s battle, I’ am happy to be in the quarters”. 

"I put a lot of concentration every time I served to make my opponent feel the pressure and today my backhand backhand against a left-handed opponent who plays that one-handed shot è was really so helpful. I am happy that it worked. The previous two challenges against him had been really hard fought-I knew that if I wanted to beat him I had to play my best tennis”. 

"Seventh time in the quarters and in the previous six I have never lost? We make gestures in Italy that we don’t è the case here – joked Matteo – I know that in my career I have achieved so much on grass. We’ll see if I can make it to the semifinals again this time".