Matteo Berrettini in semifinals in Stuttgart

Matteo Berrettini in semifinals in Stuttgart

Matteo Berrettini, world number 95, rises again on “his” grass and clinches the semifinals of the Stuttgart ATP 250, a tournament he has already won twice in 2019 and 2022, beating Australian James Duckworth, number 101, with a score of 6-4 7-5 in just under an hour and a half.

Only two breaks in the entire match, obviously both in favor of Berrettini. The first came in the fifth game of the first set, in which the 28-year-old Roman broke his opponent on his fourth chance.

In the second set Matteo misses three break points on 0-40 service Duckworth at 2-2, the decisive stretch then comes at 5-5 and Berrettini closes immediately after at the second match point after not conceding a single break point in the entire match.

Now Matteo will faceà the winner of the quarterfinal that features another Italian, Lorenzo Musetti, opposing Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik.