Berrettini Believes In His Grand Slam Chances in 2023

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday, December 10, 2022

Matteo Berrettini was heading into Wimbledon as one of many prime favorites after working the desk on grass in 2022. He went 9-0 on his favourite in 2022, successful titles at Stuttgart and Queen’s Membership, however would see his Wimbledon desires derailed when he examined constructive for Covid and needed to pull out of the occasion.

Berrettini, who holds a 33-6 lifetime document on grass and reached the finals at Wimbledon in 2021, has had dangerous luck with accidents and sickness for a number of years, and he underwent proper hand surgical procedure in March of 2022, which pressured to overlook all the clay season.

When all was stated and executed the Italian completed the season with a 32-12 document and a rating of 16. He is probably not first on the final of prime Grand Slam contenders in 2022, however the 26-year-old Italian is backing himself as a brand new season dawns.

“I see my probabilities of successful a slam,” he told Eurosport earlier this week, whereas enjoying at an exhibition occasion in Saudi Arabia. “I used to be not that removed from doing it in earlier years. That’s for certain a aim.

“Clearly, I had to consider my well being first as a result of if there isn’t that it’s robust to play. However when you get there and also you’re feeling good, then clearly the aim is to win a Grand Slam, to win a Masters 1000, to have lengthy runs in a very powerful tournaments on the planet and I feel I can do this.”

Berrettini reached the semifinals on the 2022 Australian Open and the quarterfinals on the US Open. It needs to be famous that he has reached a minimum of the second week in his final six Grand Slam appearances.

He believes he has the power – and the extent – to play on the elite stage once more in 2023.

“I really feel that I can get again to that stage, and clearly the aim is to get again within the prime 10 and see from there,” he stated. “Final yr, earlier than the hand surgical procedure I used to be at my greatest rating. I used to be six on the planet. I do know that it’s my stage and I do know I can get again there. Why not even higher?”