«Take me off the field, I'm unwatchable»- Corriere.it

The Phoenix ChallengersFor Matthew Berrettini, it had to be the good tournament to put in a few games (his words after the defeat in Indian Wells against Daniel) and get ready for the second Masters 1000 of the year, that of Miami. Instead nothing to do, Berrettini he still lostagainst predictions (6-4 3-6 6-3) from the 22-year-old Russian Alexander Shevchenko, number 132 in the world. Out in the quarterfinals, in a tournament in which Berrettini had benefited from a wild card and entered the draw as the first seed.

All the elements were there for restore confidence in the head and petrol in the legs, but the risk that this crisis becomes a very long tunnel. At a certain point in the match, the microphones on the sidelines intercepted a sentence that summarized Matteo's moment: Take me off the field, please, I'm unwatchable. Too bad to be true, with a fortune: Berrettini, who a year ago these days decided to stop and have surgery on his hand. He would return in June, with two wins in his first two tournaments, between Stuttgart and Queen's. There are, therefore, no points to defend, and all that will be arriving from Miami onwards - with the season on clay that will start from Montecarlo and then arrive in Madrid, Rome and Roland Garros, before his beloved grass - it will only be a gain. But the risk, seeing Berrettini disheartened these days, that the situation gets worse. Nobody wishes that.