Berrettini: “It's over with Melissa Satta. Dark period, Maldini helped me”

Tennis, Berrettini: “To leave the house I had to drag myself, I had to start from the basics again”

Matteo Berrettini he decided to speak and tell his story dark period, which he now thinks he has definitively put behind him. The tennis player Italian also reveals that he has broken up with his famous girlfriend. “Me and Melissa Satta we are not together anymore. What I can say is that we had a beautiful relationship. I think – explains Berrettini and reported by Repubblica – that we have great respect for each other. I have to thank her for the months that were beautiful. For this year I have lived very intensely, despite the difficulty of the case, both outside and inside the field“. Matteo Berrettini will return to tennis from March 12th to Phoenix, a non-random city to rise from the ashes. “I had to start from the basics again. After the injury at the US Open I was exhausted from an energy point of view. I had a hard time doing therapy, getting on the bed. To leave the house I had to drag myself“. It is at that moment that doubts arise: “I had to remember why I like tennis. Putting my sporting life in order like this, with Vincenzo Santopadre, after 15 years together on the field, we decided to break away“.

Whatever happens, it will be a new life. “They reiterated it to me – says Berrettini – Paolo Maldiniwith whom I am compared for a long timeand also Alessio Sakara who knows what it means win by suffering. They made me understand that it is part of the journey, and that the career is long“. But another person who is stimulating Berrettini is Jannik Sinner. “A spring for me. We are in contact, more united than ever from a sporting point of view. And he gave me a great hand also having been next to him during the Davis Cup: I'm trying to take something from him too, from what he does, from his routine, from his approach. And the backhand of him would be useful, it's a crazy sound live. I believe that the secret of Italian tennis in general is mutual help. We push each other“.