The 21st century
Italy · born Rome, 1996 · right-handed · twice Queen's champion and Wimbledon finalist in 2021
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Queen's Club titles, 2021 and 2022, in his first two visits
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Stuttgart titles, 2019 and 2022
2021
First Italian man to reach the Wimbledon singles final
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Grass record after Queen's 2022, with 20 wins in 21 matches
6
Career-high ATP ranking, January 2022
Matteo Berrettini was born in Rome in 1996 and turned professional in 2015. He won his first ATP title on clay at Gstaad in 2018, and in 2019 added titles in Budapest and Stuttgart, reached the US Open semi-finals and finished the year in the top 10.
In 2021 he reached the Madrid Masters final, won Queen's on his debut and became the first Italian man to play the Wimbledon singles final, losing to Novak Djokovic in four sets. A run to the Australian Open semi-finals in January 2022 took him to No. 6. Surgery on his right hand in March 2022 cost him the clay season; he came back on grass to win Stuttgart and Queen's in successive weeks, then withdrew from Wimbledon hours before his first match after testing positive for COVID-19.
Injuries kept him off the tour for long spells from 2023 to 2025. He won three titles in 2024, at Marrakech, Gstaad and Kitzbühel, and won his singles rubber against Pablo Carreño Busta in the 2025 Davis Cup final as Italy took a third title in a row. As of November 2026 he had 10 ATP singles titles and was ranked No. 47.
| Stuttgart finals | 2019: beat Félix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 7-6 without losing serve all week, the first Italian to win a tour-level grass title since Andreas Seppi at Eastbourne in 2011. 2022: beat Andy Murray 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 with 19 aces in his first event after hand surgery. 2024: lost to Jack Draper 3-6, 7-6, 6-4 |
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| Queen's finals | 2021: beat Cameron Norrie 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 without facing a break point, the first man to win the title on debut since Boris Becker in 1985. 2022: beat Filip Krajinović 7-5, 6-4, the first man in the Open Era to win in both of his first two appearances |
| Wimbledon 2021 | Seeded seventh, beat Félix Auger-Aliassime in the quarter-finals and Hubert Hurkacz in the semi-finals, then lost the final to Novak Djokovic 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 after taking the first-set tiebreak. The defeat ended an 11-match winning run, all on grass |
| Wimbledon 2019 | Reached the fourth round for the first time and lost to Roger Federer in 74 minutes |
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Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"I know that I can win this title. I'm not sure if I'm going to do it, but I know I can do it."
The person behind the player.
Wimbledon 2019
Berrettini met his hero Roger Federer in the fourth round in 2019 and was beaten in an hour and 14 minutes. At the handshake he joked: "Thanks for the tennis lesson. How much do I owe you?" Three years later he took Federer's singles place in Team Europe at the Laver Cup in London, and said he would ask Federer for tips on volleys and serve and volley.
Source: Laver CupStuttgart, 2019
He did not drop serve all week on his way to the 2019 Stuttgart title, yet called it mentally "really difficult" because every match was close. Along with €117,050 and 250 ranking points, the winner drove away with a new Mercedes-Benz EQC.
Source: Tennis TourTalkQueen's Club, 2021
"I was dreaming about playing this tournament," he said after winning Queen's on his first appearance, as Boris Becker had in 1985. A few weeks later, arriving at the All England Club, he ran into Becker, who recognised him; Berrettini said it was a pleasant surprise.
Source: ATP Tour; Associated PressStuttgart and Queen's, 2022
He arrived in Stuttgart after three months out with a hand injury and told his team: "Guys, I think it is going to be tough." Nine matches later he had two titles. "The last thing I expected was to come back from surgery and win two titles in a row," he said at Queen's.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2022
As the previous year's runner-up and the eighth seed, he pulled out hours before his first-round match after testing positive for COVID-19, writing that he was "heartbroken" and had been isolating for several days with flu-like symptoms.
Source: Sports Illustrated (Associated Press)Bologna, 2025
With Jannik Sinner absent, Berrettini opened the 2025 Davis Cup final in Bologna by beating Pablo Carreño Busta 6-3, 6-4, and Flavio Cobolli clinched Italy's third title in a row, the first won on home soil.
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