Maximum result with minimum effort for Matteo Berrettini who took the pass for the quarterfinals of the "Arizona Tennis Classic", a very rich Challenger 175 tournament (new category introduced for 2023) with a prize pool of 220 thousand dollars that is being played on the hard courts of the Phoenix Country Club in the capital of Arizona.
The 26-year-old Roman, n.23 ATP and first seeded of the tournament (wild card), after the double 6-4 trimmed in the debut derby to Mattia Bellucci, n.150 ATP, fished out in the draw as a lucky loser, beat 7-5 7-6(5), in one hour and forty minutes of the match, the Australian Aleksandar Vukic, n.186 in the ranking, promoted from the qualifiers, who had eliminated Matteo Arnaldi in three sets on his debut in the main draw , #115 ATP.
