Berrettini: 'Restart? Unable to play with glove

"The health indications will have to be given by the experts. I think it is very difficult to allow a nation to host an event with 400-500 athletes coming from 80 different countries, but I hope so much to be wrong and I hope that in the near future you can play and can resume activities because the world needs it. " So Matteo Berrettini on Radio 1 Rai, from the retreat of Boca Raton in Florida, on the possible restart of tennis. In a few days the ATP will decide if and how to resume playing. With what precautions? "The only conditions that I see possible - adds the number 8 of world tennis - are to play behind closed doors, avoid all unnecessary contacts starting from the handshake between the athletes and with the referee and the towels that must not be touched from the ball boys. A tennis different from what we are used to, but without upsetting the basics: playing with a latex glove, for example, cannot be the same thing because you completely lose your sensitivity on the racket and I think it can't be done " .
    Matteo Berrettini is living the Coronavirus quarantine in Boca Raton, Florida, at the home of Ajla Tomljanović, the Croatian tennis player, naturalized Australian, current n. 55 of the Ranking.
    "Here too the situation is a little better. There hasn't been such a restrictive lockdown as in Italy, but we still followed fairly strict rules. We managed to train because we have a home that allows us to exercise and we had the possibility of going to play tennis in a private house. A few days ago I got an ankle sprain, but it's a light thing. And so I'm continuing to work without playing to recover from this slight injury. " The toughest opponent for features? "Djokovic because his best features fit well with mine. He has a response on the crazy serve and therefore manages, most of the time, to neutralize my joke. And then when I try to do bad with the forehand he moves very very well and therefore copes well with that part of my game and for me it becomes difficult to build the point and try to win the game "