Matteo Berrettini has lamented the lack of ranking points at Wimbledon this year and questioned how the decision was arrived at.
The Italian world No. 11 earned 1,200 points from his run to the final last year where he lost to Novak Djokovic in four sets, but he will not be able to defend a single one of them following the ATP's decision to strip the tournament of its ranking points.
That was a response to Wimbledon's move to ban Russian and Belarussian players from the event following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and Berrettini - while acknowledging the horror of the situation in Ukraine - felt it could all have been handled differently.
He explained:
"It doesn’t matter how well I play this year, my ranking is going to drop, and that is not fair, although I get that it is a really sad and complicated situation with what is going on in Ukraine. I just wish that this decision was taken in a different way. Nobody asked us our opinion about it and it shouldn’t work like that. But it is Wimbledon. I don’t think there are going to be any changes in the tournament."
Speaking further on playing on grass, Berrettini admitted he didn't like it initially:
"I never thought I would be good on grass. The first year I played on it was 2018 and I didn’t like it. Then I did my pre-season before 2019 on really fast hard courts and after that the grass felt really good. I went to play the Davis Cup against India and we played on grass. And from the first practice I felt like, 'Wow, this is nice'."
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