Matteo Berrettini is finally back on the winning track. With his final victory in two sets against the defending champions Roberto Carballes Baena At the ATP 250 tournament in Marrakech, the Italian secured his first ATP title in almost two years.
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last edited: April 7, 2024, 6:09 p.m
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Mario Berrettini celebrated his eighth title on the ATP tour in Marrakech after a long dry spell.
With a 2-1 lead in the direct balance sheet, Matteo Berrettini went into the final in Marrakech against the defending champion Roberto Carballes Baena from Spain, who celebrated his first and so far only ATP title in Morocco last year.
In the initial phase of the match, both players were able to secure their opponent’s serve game once. The first set came to a head with an exciting final phase. With the score at 5:5, the 27-year-old Berrettini secured four point wins in a row with the score at 40:15 on Carballes Baena’s serve and thus got the decisive break. The Italian didn’t let himself be stopped by 0:40 in the following service game and served out the set with five points won in a row.
At the beginning of the second act, the 31-year-old Carballes Baena was still resisting, but had to increasingly assert the growing superiority of the former world number 6. recognize. With an ace, Berrettini secured a 7:5, 6:2 win after 1:46 hours.
After a period of suffering with wrist and ankle injuries, the current world number 135. after almost two years, lift a winner’s trophy on the ATP tour again. The Roman won his last two titles out of a total of eight in 2022 with the lawn double blow in Stuttgart and Queen’s.
Here is the individual tableau in Marrakech
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