Berrettini retires due to injury at the Montecarlo ATP, passes Rune-Corriere.it

Incredible. There are no other adjectives. When Matthew Berrettini, after the great victory on his birthday against Cerundolo, he seemed on the way out of the tunnel, here’s another blow. Matteo, today, will not play against the Dane Holger rune: no round of 16, therefore, due to the umpteenth injury. I don’t know where to start – his words on his social networks -. I was finally finding my level and getting back to where I wanted to be. This difficult. I am very sad to announce that I will not be able to play my match in Monte Carlo today. I felt some pain in my obliques during yesterday’s game. The pain got significantly worse during the night. After consulting with my medical team we decided to have an MRI this morning. I have a grade two tear in my internal oblique muscle. I can’t thank you enough for the support. It means so much and it is what gets me through these difficult times.

Before playing the third set yesterday, Berrettini he had asked for the intervention of the physiotherapist and took an anti-inflammatory: he had manifested some difficulty in movement, but the fight that had brought him to victory seemed to have overcome the pain and, therefore, the fear of a more serious stop. The news, however, is devastating for morale, and for the fact that in less than a month there will be Matteo’s home tournament: those Internazionali d’Italia already skipped last year due to the operation in hand. Not the first time that Berrettini stops due to an abs problem: he had already happened in Australia and then later in the ATP Finals in Turin (2021) and again last year in Acapulco. Now that of Montecarlo, in a season, for now, terrible.