\u201cI feel like there are so many players that are playing unbelievable tennis,\u201d Berrettini said of the wide-open men\u2019s draw. \u201cThe field is pretty packed. I\u2019m trying to do my best \u2013 I\u2019m focusing on myself and I want to enjoy this win.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There have been plenty of breakthroughs from young guns this week at Roland-Garros, the performances of Joao Fonseca<\/a>, Rafael Jodar<\/a> and Jakub Mensik<\/a> giving those rising talents confidence that they can make it in the dog-eat-dog world of Grand Slam tennis.\u00a0<\/p>\n Berrettini is at the other end of the career arc, but his performance has been equally enlightening for him.\u00a0<\/p>\n After his five-hour and 13-minute third-round win over Comesana he explained the sensations he is experiencing as his self-belief is being reborn.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Even though I had unbelievable support from my family, from my friends, from my team, and everybody kept telling me that I still had it in me, sometimes I just have to confess that I thought that I couldn’t come back, I couldn’t feel good on court again,” he said. <\/p>\n “That’s why I basically was emotional, because I proved to myself one more time that I can do this, I can do it well, I can fight, I can enjoy my time on court.”<\/p>\n Berrettini will face either Frances Tiafoe<\/a> or Matteo Arnaldi<\/a> in the quarterfinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI feel like there are so many players that are playing unbelievable tennis,\u201d Berrettini said of the wide-open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-471189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}