It’s been a strong start to the season for Matteo Berrettini, already reaching three quarterfinals at back-to-back ATP 500s in Doha and Dubai and at the Masters 1000 event in Miami.
He’s already had two Top 10 wins, too, beating Novak Djokovic for the first time in Doha then Alexander Zverev in Monte Carlo, which happened to be his first career win over a Top 2 player.
And in Madrid on Saturday, the hits kept coming.
Berrettini battled to the milestone 200th win of his career with a 6-7 (3), 7-6 (6), 6-1 victory over American Marcos Giron in his opening match at the Masters 1000 clay-court event.
He’s just the eighth Italian man in the Open Era to reach 200 career wins, and of that group he has the second-best winning percentage, at .654 (200-106). Only Jannik Sinner has a better winning percentage among them, at .771 (270-80).
Berrettini and Sinner are also the only two Italian men born in 1990 or later to reach 200 career wins—they were born in 1996 and 2001.
ITALIAN MEN WITH 200+ WINS IN OPEN ERA (tour-level):
- 426: Fabio Fognini [426-392]
- 395: Adriano Panatta [395-247]
- 386: Andreas Seppi [386-422]
- 320: Corrado Barazzutti [320-231]
- 270: Jannik Sinner [270-80]
- 223: Renzo Furlan [223-239]
- 219: Andrea Gaudenzi [219-231]
- 200: Matteo Berrettini [200-106]
More to come…
