The German struck 19 winners to just 11 unforced errors and did not face a break point in the match, winning 82 per cent of his second serve points en route to a 6-3, 6-4 victory in Indian Wells.<\/p>\n
Zverev leads Berrettini 5-3 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series, with this the World No. 4\u2019s first win against the Italian since the 2021 Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>, an event Zverev won. Following his 71-minute triumph, the fourth seed will next meet Brandon Nakashima<\/a> or Camilo Ugo Carabelli<\/a>.<\/p>\n “I am very happy with the performance,” Zverev said in his on-court interview. “Against Matteo, it is very difficult. I lost the past two matches against him. I have struggled in Indian Wells before, but I feel different this year. Hopefully, it is going to be a different result and it was a good start.”<\/p>\n Zverev is a seven-time ATP Masters 1000 champion but has never triumphed in Indian Wells. The 28-year-old\u2019s best result in the Californian desert was quarter-final showings in 2021 and 2024, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. Earlier this year, the No. 4 player in the PIF ATP Rankings reached the semi-finals at the Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n “He is somebody that is extremely aggressive, massive forehand, massive serve,” Zverev said of Berrettini. “When you back off a little bit, it is very difficult against him, but today I thought I was the one pushing, I was the one being aggressive.”<\/p>\n Zverev could face 15th seed Flavio Cobolli<\/a> in the fourth round. The Italian moved past Miomir Kecmanovic<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 to continue his red-hot recent run, having won his third tour-level title last week at the ATP 500 event in Acapulco.<\/p>\n Cobolli, competing at a career-high No. 15, dug deep after losing the first set and produced a brilliant serving display in the decider, winning 13 of his 14 first-serve points. The 23-year-old will play Frances Tiafoe<\/a> or Jenson Brooksby<\/a> in the third round. Cobolli has fond memories of playing Tiafoe after defeating the American in the recent Acapulco final.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Zverev after latest Berrettini win: ‘I feel different this year’ Cobolli continues good form with opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-519257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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