Matteo Berrettini is properly accustomed to taking over the world’s finest gamers on a few of the most iconic courts on this planet. Yet even after lifting seven ATP Tour titles, surging to a career-high No. 6 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings and reaching a Grand Slam closing at Wimbledon, the Italian generally nonetheless wonders the way it all took place.

“My whole family plays tennis. They always told me, ‘Do what you love, and give your best’,” Berrettini mentioned not too long ago in an interview with the ATP Tour. “Growing up, I never thought about it. I was dreaming about playing maybe [in] Rome, [but] I was more like a child that is dreaming and saying, ‘I want to go to the moon’… And then it happened. Everything [happened] so fast.”

Netflix’s Break Point adopted Berrettini’s stellar run to the semi-finals on the 2022 Australian Open within the second episode. Despite that Melbourne marketing campaign finally ending in disappointment with a four-set defeat to legend Rafael Nadal, the 26-year-old stays grateful for each expertise he has in his life as a professional. Berrettini believes that the extra he offers, the extra he will get again, regardless of the outcome on court docket.

“It teaches you a lot about who you are,” mentioned Berrettini of competing on the ATP Tour. “[When] I used to be a child, I had idols. I wish to be a kind of gamers. I wish to have children which might be trying and are like, ‘I’m going to determine to play tennis or I’m going to enhance this factor as a result of I noticed that Matteo is doing it’.

“When you think about that stuff, you just think that it’s worth it.”