Matteo Berrettini scored at the Australian Open 2022 another great result where he only found himself in the semis before a great Rafael Nadal, the winner of the tournament at the time. Matteo reached his best ranking this week, becoming world No. 6, and his popularity in Italy is at its peak.
These days the player was a guest on the first evening of the San Remo 2022 Festival, an important Italian music event that has been celebrated a lot these days. Besides being a great tennis player, Berrettini is almost universally recognized as a handsome man and social media went crazy during his participation in San Remo with Matteo, who has become a trending topic on social media.
The Italian champion has returned to speak in these hours, giving an interesting interview to the microphones of the Italian newspaper Repubblica. Here is an excerpt of his statements: “Too beautiful? My mother and grandma told me that many times, but it’s not my fault.
I’m a tennis player and that’s why I was called to San Remo, I don’t play tennis and so of course I don’t mind compliments.”
Matteo Berrettini’s words on the Big 3
Speaking of the Big 3, the tennis player then continued: “They won’t destroy us forever in the media, it’s a passage but it will pass.
It also happened with Nadal, I remember back then the public cheered for Sampras and Agassi and not for the new champions who have now become legends. Rafa used to say: ‘Look at that, play with the Capri shorts.
Also, I would be in the stands cheering for Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal if I were them, cheering for them means holding on to their memories and a part of their heart, it’s romantic.”
Matteo Berrettini has admitted several times in the past that he is his biggest idol in Swiss champion Roger Federer and in a short time the Italian has even challenged what has been his idol since childhood and did so at Wimbledon.
Now Berrettini is at the peak of his career and dreams of winning a Grand Slam title, a result that would place him even more in the history of Italian tennis and sport.
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