“A son? He is early »-Corriere.it

To understand what and how many sacrifices the life of a top-level tennis player entails, Melissa Satta wanted to read «Open», the biography of André Agassi. And it is in this way that the 37-year-old showgirl has become aware of how to move in the world of Matthew Berrettini who by profession is, in fact, a professional tennis player, etche has been her life partner for a few months. “The only thing I said to myself after my divorce was: never again a sportsman – says Satta, ex-wife of Kevin Prince Boateng, in a long interview with Vanity Fair —. I wanted normality.” But then Berrettini arrived and it was match and meeting. “Here we are known in Miami, at a dinner with mutual friends – recalls the former tissue -. We talked, we exchanged phone numbers. The next day we were both leaving, my life is in Milan, he lives in Montecarlo ».

But from that moment it began a dense exchange of messages on WhatsApp, which led them to where they are now: in love (“I’m very shy and reserved about these things, if a person enters my life like this it’s because they’re special… Let’s say I’m very happy”, she tries to get away) and eager to being together as much as possible, fitting together their commitments and their lives. “I’ve met people at dinner and exchanged numbers, but often it ends as it began. Not with Matteo: if we’re still here it’s because we managed to meet later… In various cities. Everything is possible in life if you really want to do something. It’s a management issue. In ten years with my ex-husband I have made nine moves, nothing scares me ».

Not even the haters who pelted her with insults and malicious comments precisely because of her history with Berrettini, insinuating that the blame for his recent abdominal injury (with consequent forfeit at the Rome Internationals) is to be attributed to her. «Too bad it’s an injury in the same place as the one in 2021, when I didn’t know him. But in any case: do I really have to answer to these people? », Melissa comments, then recalling having lived a similar experience also with her ex-husband when he suffered from groin pain. “There too
they attacked me saying we had too much sex and that was the cause of his physical problems
». This is the reason for the famous social outburst in mid-April, to defend herself and the love she is experiencing and in which she believes to the point of having presented her mother to Berrettini and, above all, her son Maddox (had from Boateng, ed).

«Matteo and I have a lot of things in common, we are deeply connected, with him I always feel like myself, we live a very serene relationship, there is transparency, no pretense or mask, we deal with any type of topic, there are no taboos… My son is a 360 degree part of my life, so I don’t find it right to hide things from him. For me it’s crucial that there is a connection, because if my son doesn’t like the man, that’s not an option for me. If Maddox is not serene, he ends up there ». And instead Maddox is so serene that he would like a little brother to play football with. «Never say never in life, I’m ready for anything. Why not, I’ve already done so many thingssometimes forging ahead, now I could enjoy it even more», admits Satta, revealing however that for the moment she and the tennis player «we live there, a breather…».

And how does the Satta-Berrettini couple live? We like to have fun together, as recently, at dinner and karaoke – reveals the presenter -. But also having evenings at home, when he trains and I work anyway. I’m German: dinner is at 7 in the evening and my son goes to bed at 9. At 10 I’m under the covers watching a movie. With me, if you want to have a night out in the middle of the week, it doesn’t work”. Listening to her, it almost seems that sex is at zero. And that romance this unknown. Quite the opposite. “I won’t quantify, but I assure you that we are like everyone who is together,” Satta points out about the frequency of their sexual relations, also explaining that she does not fear a possible decrease in desire. «Never experienced. I was with my ex-husband for ten years and the sex has never dropped. It depends on how you set up the relationship, whether you work at it or let it go. And then Matteo is romantic and I like him very much. Not only when he gives me roses, but also when he makes me coffee in the morning ».