When people blame Matteo Berrettini’s relationship for the lack of results this year, he finds it to be really disrespectful.
This year, Matteo Berrettini hasn’t been playing his best tennis, and many have attributed the decline in performance on his recent relationship with Melissa Satta. Many people believed Berrettini’s frequent public appearances with his new partner were a hint that he was not fully devoting his time to tennis but rather to other activities.
Berrettini stated that such comments are extremely disrespectful in a recent interview: “At this point in life, seeing a relationship as a distraction for a professional athlete seems disrespectful to me. It would be like saying that a journalist writes worse articles because he has a wife and children. It is something that does not make any kind of sense, does it?”
Matteo Berrettini in 2023
Currently ranked no.21, Matteo played his last match on the 12th of April when he beat world no.30 Francisco Cerundolo 5-7 7-6(1) 6-4 in the 2nd round in Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters (draw).
Currently, during this year Matteo achieved a compiled 9-7 match record. Matteo Berrettini’s best performance of this season was getting to the final in Australia.
