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“It will pass, I’m working harder than ever.” Matthew Berrettini he is the first to want to get out of this black hole he has slipped into and which does not give him that serenity found instead off the pitch. He will return to play in Europe after having packed only disappointments and bad thoughts in his suitcase from America: withdrawal due to injury in Acapulco, defeat in the first game played in Indian Wells, elimination in the Phoenix Challenger chosen to keep pace (with that emblematic cry on the pitch «I’m unwatchable»), out at the first opportunity also in Miami.

Not even Melissa Satta’s debut in her box was enough to lead him to victory: never like against the American Mackenzie McDonaldHowever, in this unfortunate moment Matteo came close to emerging victorious. The match was decided in just a few points and in two tiebreaks, the second of which was masterfully played by McDonald. Matteo, on the other hand, is on the field with a disheartened mind, with a physique that still doesn’t support him as he would like and with the media pressure on him given by what he himself has defined “a sentimental relationship like all the other kids my age”. but that the haters continue to consider a distraction.

«I feel the difficulty and for this very reason I’m working harder than usual – said Berrettini after the defeat with McDonald at Ubitennis -. The fact that I did many stop & go in recent times due to injuries it penalizes me and I’m paying the consequences. Tennis is a world that doesn’t forgive you and doesn’t stop and wait for you. At the moment, then, we young people are very exposed, but we feel that this is good for the movement. What I want you to know is that we are not stopping, we are working hard to give joy to ourselves and to the people who follow us».

Hidden under a red and green peaked hat, Melissa belongs to the latter category. Involved as she should be, she tried to incite Berrettini in the decisive points of the match, but there was nothing they could do against McDonald either. To come to Berrettini’s rescue, there is now the clay court season that he missed on foot last year due to the injury to his right hand which forced him to go under the knife. He will play in Montecarlo (main draw starting on Easter Monday), then in Munich, finally in Madrid and then at his home, at the Foro Italico. To find the lost serenity.