Matteo Berrettini will not be at Roland Garros. The tennis player’s announcement comes through a reel published on Instagram. “Even though I’m training intensely, I don’t feel ready to play more best-of-five sets matches yet“, he writes.
“For this reason – explains the athlete – I have decided, with my team, to return for the grass season. Thanks, as always, for the continuous support, we just need to have a little more patience”.
Only last May 8th, the tennis player withdrew from the Internazionali Bnl d’Italia. “I’m not ready to play in Rome, I hope to be ready for Paris,” the 28-year-old said in a press conference. In Rome, the Italian was supposed to face Stefano Napolitano in the first round in an Italian derby.
“I’m just not ready to compete and I risk getting hurt and sitting still, and that’s the last thing I want. I’ve had to put my heart aside from what I want to do to what I have to do. I feel like I’ve been through this before what. I hope that 2025 will be a good year for Rome”, he explained. “In my head it’s difficult, if my team hadn’t been there… When will I return? It’s difficult to say, I hope before Paris or for Paris. I need to train, return with rhythm, with the steps that are right to take. I’m very far away but I’m not ready for tomorrow”, Berrettini’s words.
“What do I feel? It’s difficult to explain. It’s not a trauma, it’s the feeling that something could happen that I’m not ready for. I’ve taken medicines that have debilitated me and I don’t feel ready. I want to play this tournament to be competitive and win it, for my history and for what I’m trying to fight. There’s nothing broken, just great sadness, it’s the tournament that made me choose this profession and it’s been taken away from me for three years, I just feel. sadness for the lack of participation”, he said again.
Berrettini’s 2024
Berrettini is looking for the best condition after a long period of absence due to physical problems between the end of 2023, which he ended at the US Open with a sprained ankle at the beginning of September, and the beginning of 2024. The Roman opened his season in Phoenix , reaching the final in the Challenger in Arizona in March. In the Masters 1000 in Miami, on hard court, he was defeated in the first round by the Scot Andy Murray. Then, the ring in Marrakech: on the red clay in Morocco, the blue triumphed, winning the title. In Monte Carlo, in the Masters 1000, immediate elimination. Now, after Rome, the new stop.
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