Matteo Berrettini, positive signs from France
Matteo Berrettini has made it through the first round of the Moselle Open, an ATP 250 tournament played on the indoor concrete of the Arènes de Metz, in the French city of the same name. The Roman defeated home athlete Quentin Halys in two sets in just over an hour, closing on 6-2, 6-4. Thus, for the third time in a row Berrettini overcame the first hurdle of a tournament, after Stockholm and Vienna.
As far as the progress of the match is concerned, the signs were positive from the very beginning, with an immediate break lead then doubled in the fifth game of a set concluded without any particular difficulty with only two games left to the evening’s opponent, number 84 in the ATP rankings (Berrettini is instead, currently, at position number 63).
More balanced was the start of the second set, which saw Berrettini cancel two break points that, if converted, would have put him up 0-2. In fact, it was the Roman’s only moment of difficulty, who then emerged again as the game went on, going on to make the break that proved decisive in the seventh game, and then never looked back.
The Roman, who had a break in the seventh game, was the only one to be broken.
Reduced from a lackluster season, often conditioned by physical problems, Matteo Berrettini is trying to regain continuity in this final 2025. Since September he has played in Hangzhou, Toyko, Shanghai, Stockholm, and Vienna before Metz, reaching as his best result the quarterfinals and Vienna before going out defeated in his match with Alex de Minaur.
The latter is the best match he has played in.
