Berrettini reappeared on the circuit winning the Stuttgart title

For the second time in his career, the Italian Matteo Berrettini won the tournament stuttgarthis first achievement so far this season, and left the British with a bitter taste Andy Murray who completed a good week on a competitive level, but was left without a glimmer of success.

The transalpine, now tenth in the ATP ranking, showed after two and a half hours that he is a player who can easily perform on the grass. He knocked Murray down in three sets (6-4, 5-7 and 6-3), which resulted in physical disability despite the help of the court doctor he used twice in the third set.

Berrettini did not fail in his first appearance in the final of the season. The Roman player has amassed nine consecutive wins in Stuttgart, which he also won in 2019. He did not know the defeat in this event.

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He already has six Berrettini trophies, Wimbledon finalist last year, when he won the Queens tournament, another of which he won on the lawn. After missing the clay season with a right hand injury in March, he had an encouraging return to touring.

The Italian aiming for Wimbledon, which Murray has won twice, has accumulated hours of tracking. That was earlier. Now, the Briton, with a metal hip, wants to climb the ranks and be competitive again on a circuit which he has come to dominate.

The Scotsman played in his first final on the lawn in Stuttgart since 2016, the year he won his last trophy on this surface, at Wimbledon against Canadian Milos Raonic. Throughout the week, the Briton won the quarterfinals of the world’s fifth -largest player, Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.

At 35 years old, he is on the brink of his ninth title on the grass. The 47th of his career. He didn’t give more to Murray who extended the game as much as he could. After losing the first set due to loss of service in the third game, he rallied to win the second set after getting his first break in the twelfth.

He blamed Andy Murray’s entire tournament effort that started the last sleeve badly. Berrettini broke, rolled and got a margin that he didn’t lose until the end of the match.

The loss didn’t ruin Murray’s good week, which will be 47th in the rankings on Monday. This is the first time since May 2018 that the Scot has been ranked in the top fifty in the world.