Berrettini's body holds up in tight Shanghai win over O'Connell

pFormer Top 10 Italian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-berrettini/bk40/overview'Matteo Berrettini/a has set a second-round showdown with a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/holger-rune/r0dg/overview'Holger Rune/a at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/shanghai/5014/overview'Rolex Shanghai Masters/a after edging Australian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/christopher-oconnell/o483/overview'Christopher O'Connell/a in two tight sets in China on Thursday./p

pBerrettini clipped 33 winners, including 11 aces, according to Infosys ATP Stats, in a 7-6(9), 7-6(6) win over World No. 71 O'Connell to claim his first win of the season at ATP Masters 1000 level. The match lasted two hours and 13 minutes./p

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pNo. 45 in the PIF ATP Rankings, Berrettini said that he felt confident in his body after withdrawing in the Tokyo second round against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/arthur-fils/f0f1/overview'Arthur Fils/a with an abdominal issue./p

p"I'm happy to be back here and healthy. I've never played him so didn't know what to expect," said Berrettini, who fought off two sets points in the first-set tie-break./p

p"Mentally it's been tough... Too often I have been thinking about how to be healthy and it's something I've grown a bit tired of. I've been working hard to be able to think as less as possible about this./p

p"It was one of the goals of the match. Not to think about my condition, just to enjoy the match, enjoy the atmosphere, which I did."/p

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a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/matteo-berrettini/bk40/overview'Matteo Berrettini/a defeats O'Connell 7-6(9) 7-6(6) to record his first ATP Masters 1000 win of the season.a href="https://twitter.com/SH_RolexMasters?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@SH_RolexMasters/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/RolexShanghaiMasters?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#RolexShanghaiMasters/a a href="https://t.co/mqUkXFJcDu"pic.twitter.com/mqUkXFJcDu/a/p

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pBerrettini trails Rune 1-2 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. The Dane rallied from a set down in Cincinnati in August to claim their most recent meeting./p

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