Berrettini banks back-to-back titles in Kitzbühel

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-berrettini/bk40/overview'Matteo Berrettini/a captured his second consecutive title Saturday at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/kitzbuhel/319/overview'Generali Open/a, where he defeated Frenchman a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/hugo-gaston/g09o/overview'Hugo Gaston/a 7-5, 6-3 in the final. The Italian, who last week lifted the Gstaad trophy, has not dropped a set in his past 10 matches./p

pThe 28-year-old made the best use of high-altitude conditions in Kitzbuuml;hel, relying on his booming serve and heavy hitting to overpower Gaston after one hour, 21 minutes. /p

p"I'm just so happy and so tired," said a relieved Berrettini in his on-court interview. "It's been a crazy two weeks, playing I think some of my best level of tennis."/p

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pNow a 10-time tour-level titlist, Berrettini struck eight aces and won 80 per cent (33/41) of his first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats. Berrettini earned a crucial break at 5-5 in the opener before gaining a one-set advantage behind his own delivery and racing to a double-break lead in the second. Despite dropping serve when serving for the match at 5-2, Berrettini quickly recovered to capture the clay ATP 250.nbsp;/p

p"I was happy that I had the double break. In tennis, you never know. A little bit of tension, he played a great game," Berrettini said. "I was focussed, I kept doing what I was doing well, hitting the ball well, hitting the ball aggressive in important moments."/p

pFollowing his third title of the season, Berrettini is up 10 spots to No. 40 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings. He is one of three players to win a trio of titles this season, alongside countryman a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a (4) and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/carlos-alcaraz/a0e2/overview'Carlos Alcaraz/a (3). Berrettini boasts a 21-5 season record.nbsp;/pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"File under: Berrettini wholesome moments ☺️????a href="https://twitter.com/MattBerrettini?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@MattBerrettini/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeneraliOpen?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#GeneraliOpen/a a href="https://t.co/gZyWwhU21x"pic.twitter.com/gZyWwhU21x/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1817184233305026617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"July 27, 2024/a/blockquote script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/script

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