Matteo Berrettini has reached the final of the men\u2019s 2021 Wimbledon championship overcoming Hubert Hurkacz on Friday.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1413516975335043073?s=19<\/p>\n
Queen\u2019s Club champion Matteo Berrettini defeated Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz 6-3, 6-0, 6-7 (3\/7), 6-4 in the Wimbledon semi-final at the opening match on Centre Court. He will either face world number one Novak Djokovic or Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1413519393070452743?s=19<\/p>\n
Seventh seed Berrettini, who has been outstanding with his form throughout and produced a serving masterclass inscribes his name in history as he becomes the first Italian player to advance to a singles final at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you, I have no words. Thanks and I need a couple of hours to understand what happened,\u201d thanked Berrettini after his victory through BBC.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played a huge match. I admired the crowd. I am so happy,\u201d added the Italian whose family and the entire team was there to watch him. <\/span>\u201cWhen you play at this level, everything has to be\u2026I am trying to be the best at everything,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n Hubert Hurkacz, who knocked out the 20 Grand Slam champion Roger Federer in the quarter-final, forced a fourth set after he fought back and took the third set 7-6(3) while Matteo Berrettini had dominated in the two sets after he led the 14th seed polish 6-0 in the second and 6-3 in the first set that earned him achieve his first Grand Slam final.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Up next is defending champion Novak Djokovic against Denis Shapovalov for the clash at the Centre Court to join the Italian in the fight for the title.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Matteo Berrettini has reached the final of the men\u2019s 2021 Wimbledon championship overcoming Hubert Hurkacz on Friday. https:\/\/twitter.com\/atptour\/status\/1413516975335043073?s=19 Queen\u2019s Club\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2130,2034,2142,2101,203,191,202,1999,1622,2024],"class_list":["post-17088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp-tour","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-hubert-hurkacz","tag-matteo-berrettini","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-poland","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-court","tag-tennisworld","tag-wimbledon-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}