Berrettini credits 2019 pre-season for all-surface prowess

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MELBOURNE : Australian Open quarter-finalist Matteo Berrettini can trace the critical period that helped him become a formidable player on all surfaces to a stirring pre-season in 2019.The seventh seed, who will play Gael Monfils on Tuesday at Melbourne Park, is the first Italian man to reach the last eig

MELBOURNE : Australian Open quarter-finalist Matteo Berrettini can trace the critical period that helped him become a formidable player on all surfaces to a stirring pre-season in 2019.

"It makes me feel good. I didn't know about this," he said."It means that I'm doing great stuff, which I never believed I could do when I was younger." But a period spent training on a slick hard court leading into the Australian summer in 2019 convinced him that he was capable of excelling on faster surfaces as well.

"I grew up on clay and it was not the best feeling that I had. Then, in 2019, something switched. We did a pre-season on a really fast hard court, so then I adjusted my game a little bit more.

 

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