Matteo Berrettini beats even the rain: dominates and triumphs in Gstaad

Matteo Berrettini beats even the rain: dominates and triumphs in Gstaad

Matteo Berrettini, world number 82, won the Swiss Open, an ATP 250 tournament on the Swiss clay in Gstaad, dominating with a score of 6-3 6-1 in a final that è was also interrupted by rain Frenchman Quentin Halys, number 192 and in his first final in a major circuit tournament.

After not giving up a single point in his first two service turns, Berrettini goes down 0-40 at 3-2 in favor of Halys but manages to save himself with five points in a row. In the next game he goes him 0-30, then wins a break point and materializes it thanks to an error by the Frenchman.

It starts raining, the 28-year-old Roman holds serve for 5-3, then there’s a long discussion with the umpire who decides to keep them sitting on the court for a few minutes waiting for the weather to evolve, but soon after they go back to the locker room and the match è suspended. After about half an hour play resumed and Halys lost his serve handing Berrettini the first partial.

Halys practically did not è return to the court: after conceding four points out of five in the last game of the first set he loses the first 15 points of the second: Matteo instead è in extreme confidence and flies on 5-0. When Halys holds the next serve he raises his arms in relative jubilation but in the next game the Azure closes the file in 59 effective minutes of play.

For Berrettini, three months after his victory in Marrakech, è it is the second triumph of the season, the ninth in his career on the major circuit and the first one he conquered in 2018 just in Gstaad, on clay courts at high altitude, 1050 meters, where he is very well placed, so much so that he reached the final also in 2022, losing to Casper Ruud. Tomorrow Matteo will be back in the top 50, right at number 50.