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Berrettini: 'It is hard to close the season but the virus must be stopped'

5/8/2020, 6:39:15 PM


No. 8 ATP is injured in an ankle, 'what better time?' (HANDLE)

He should have been back on the field, but an ankle sprain prevented him from participating in a tournament in West Palm Beach, a stone's throw from Boca Raton, Florida. Matteo Berrettini lives there with his fiancée Ajla Tomljanovic, tennis player too, n.56 Wta.

"We were lucky - the blue tells ANSA - because here in Florida the situation is less serious than in New York, and we have also been able to train. The injury is nothing serious, sorry but this is also the best time to have an ailment ... ". Because real tennis is still, like everything else.

Rafa Nadal said he was skeptical about a restart in 2020. And the number 8 of the ATP ranking does not feel like giving him wrong: "I agree - he explains - Season over? I hope not, but I have big doubts. I am for to play, but the fundamental thing now is to stop this virus and try to start again with normal tennis. It is science that must tell us ".