Matteo Berrettini also has to cancel Acapulco
Matteo Berrettini's bad luck for injuries doesn't want to end. After the cancellations for Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, the 23-year-old must now also fit in Acapulco. The Italian will probably make his comeback at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells.
by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Feb 18, 2020, 09:03 pm
Matteo Berrettini actually wanted to attack fully at the start of the 2020 season. The high-flyer from the previous year had hardly any world ranking points to defend in the first tournaments and had a tight schedule. At the Australian Open 2019, the 23-year-old failed in round one, as did his appearances in Doha and Dubai. The Italian had a completely different plan for this season. The season should have started with the ATP Cup, and after the Australian Open, starts at the clay court tournaments in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro were planned before the hard court tournaments in Acapulco, Indian Wells and Miami were to follow.
But the bad luck for injuries put a stop to the young man from Rome: ATP Cup, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro - early in the season, the list of cancellations by the 23-year-old is long. And it gets longer, because Matteo Berrettini - as Ubitennis.com reported - had to announce his cancellation for the ATP 500 event in Acapulco. Obviously, Berrettini had taken over when he started at the Australian Open, underestimating the severity of his abdominal muscle injury a little.
In the run-up to the Rio Open, the US Open semi-finalist from the previous year announced via the organizer's Twitter account that he was still suffering from an injury: "I did everything I could to relax and be ready to be playing the Rio Open, but unfortunately I need more days of rest. " Both in Buenos Aires and in Rio de Janeiro, Berrettini would have entered the tournament as number two, after Dominic Thiem's cancellation for the tournament in Argentina, the Italian would even have been top seed.
Now the Italian tennis fans have to wait until the ATP Masters 1000 event in Indian Wells before Matteo Berrettini can go hunting for points again. The 23-year-old had failed in the round of the top 128 at Sam Querry in 2019. So far nothing has come of the hoped-for attack by Matteo Berrettini, but also in Indian Wells the previous year's performance offers clear improvement potential.