Matteo Berrettini will not be at Roland Garros. The tennis player’s announcement comes through a post published on Instagram. “Although I am training intensely, I still don’t feel ready to play more games than the best of the five sets,” he writes.
“For this reason – explains the sportsman – I decided, with my team, to return for the season on the grass. Thanks, as always, for the continuous support, we must have just a little more patience”.
Only on May 8, the tennis player had retired from the Internazionali Bnl d’Italia. “I’m not ready to play in Rome, I hope to be ready for Paris,” said the 28-year-old at a press conference. In Rome, the blue would have had to face Stefano Napolitano in the first round in an Italian derby.
“I’m not just ready to compete and risk hurting myself and standing still, and that’s the last thing I want. I had to put my heart aside with what I want to do to what I have to do. I seem to have already experienced this thing. I hope 2025 is a good year for Rome, “he explained. “It’s hard in my head, if my team hadn’t been there … When will I be back? It is difficult to say, I hope before Paris or Paris. I need to train, return with rhythm, with the steps that is right to take. I’m not far away but I’m not ready for tomorrow, “Berrettini’s words.
“What do I feel like? It is difficult to explain. It’s not a trauma, it’s the feeling that something might happen that I’m not ready. I have taken medicines that have weakened me and I don’t feel ready. I want to play this tournament to be competitive and win it, for my story and for what I’m trying to fight. There is nothing broken, only great sadness, it is the tournament that made me choose this job and they have been taking it away for three years, I only feel sad about not participating, “he said again.
Berrettini is looking for the best condition after a long stop period due to physical problems between the end of 2023, closed at the Us Open with an ankle sprain in early September, and the beginning of 2024. The Roman opened his season in Phoenix, arriving in the final in the Challenger in Arizona in March. In the Masters 1000 in Miami, on concrete, he was defeated in the first round by the Scottish Andy Murray. Then, the ring in Marrakech: on the red earth in Morocco, blue triumphed by winning the title. In Montercarlo, in the Masters 1000, immediate elimination. Now, after Rome, the new stop.
