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Matteo Berrettini says his valiant effort in losing to Novak Djokovic

Matteo Berrettini says his valiant effort in losing to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the Wimbledon final on Sunday is “not the end, it is the beginning” and he believes he can one day lift the trophy at the All England Club.

 

The 25-year-old Italian showed great pluck to come from a breakdown and win the first set before the Serb gathered himself and won 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 for a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam and sixth Wimbledon title.

Novak Djokovic open hands

“It is not the end, it is the beginning for me,” said Berrettini, appearing in his first Grand Slam final.

Berrettini said he would draw on Djokovic’s example of how he improved himself as a player and hopefully become Italy’s first Grand Slam male winner since Adriano Panatta at the 1976 French Open.

Berrettini — the first Italian to reach a Wimbledon singles final — also lost in four sets to Djokovic in last month’s French Open quarter-finals. .

Novak Djokovic

“In order to win against him (Djokovic), I have to improve more,” said Berrettini.

“Like he said, he was losing against Rafa and Roger, and thanks to them he improved.

Matteo Berrettini says his valiant effort in losing to Novak Djokovic in four sets in the Wimbledon final on Sunday is “not the end, it is the beginning” and he believes he can one day lift the trophy at the All England Club.

The 25-year-old Italian showed great pluck to come from a breakdown and win the first set before the Serb gathered himself and won 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 6-4, 6-3 for a record-equalling 20th Grand Slam and sixth Wimbledon title.

Novak Djokovic

“It is not the end, it is the beginning for me,” said Berrettini, appearing in his first Grand Slam final.

Berrettini said he would draw on Djokovic’s example of how he improved himself as a player and hopefully become Italy’s first Grand Slam male winner since Adriano Panatta at the 1976 French Open.

Berrettini — the first Italian to reach a Wimbledon singles final — also lost in four sets to Djokovic in last month’s French Open quarter-finals. .

“In order to win against him (Djokovic), I have to improve more,” said Berrettini.

“Like he said, he was losing against Rafa and Roger, and thanks to them he improved.

– ‘I can do it’ –

Novak Djokovic

“The most important thing for me is that right now I’m losing — obviously you can lose to anyone, but I’m losing against the best players in the world,” he said.

“In Paris, I lost against him (Djokovic), and he won the tournament.

“In Queen’s, I won, and then I lost against him again here. It means that my level is growing.

“It means my weapons and my tennis, in general, is growing. That’s the right path.”

Novak Djokovic laughing

Berrettini said he was “pissed” at losing and he had not played up to the standards he had hoped for but he has taken enough out of the fortnight to know one thing.

“I know that I can do it,” he said. “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.

“So that’s what I’m going to do in the next weeks, in the next months and years: try to lift the trophy.”

Novak Djokovic wave

Berrettini wore strapping around his left thigh from the outset but said it had nothing to do with his defeat.

“I have a pain in my leg. Luckily it’s nothing dangerous. I didn’t lose for that,” he said.

Berrettini’s Australian girlfriend Ajla Tomljanovic — who reached the quarter-finals in the singles — and his family watched with his father Luca fingering his electronic cigarette anxiously.

Berrettini paid tribute to them.

“Without my family, friends and team all this would not have been possible so I just say Grazie Grazie.”

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