“I would like to have Roger Federer’s game”
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Matteo Arnaldi, 22-year-old Italian tennis player, thanks to the points won in the victory of his third career Challenger in Murcia, sees the Top-100 one step away now, his first major professional goal. And now he now turns his gaze to the ATP 500 in Barcelona, where he made his debut against Jaume Munar after going through two qualifying matches.
With his eyes, however, on the main draw of the Roland Garros: “I went to Murcia to win and score important points to enter the main draw at the Roland Garros.” To be successful, it is sometimes important to be inspired by models and Matteo Arnaldi also has one, to which he is also approached even if with the springs: “With the due proportions, they tell me that I look a bit like Djokovic, because in terms of characteristics I am a baseline counter-attacker.
I admire him, but if I had to steal something from a big player from the present or the past, I would like to have Federer’s vision of the game.”
Arnaldi: “I dream of a Grand Slam”
With the mind to the great international stages, but with the soul at the roots.
This is the sentiment that dwells in Matteo Arnaldi, who in a recent interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport spoke about his career aspirations and beyond.
Hethen said: “Everyone dreams of winning a Grand Slam, but that’s a really stratospheric dimension.
As an Italian, the tournament of the heart is Rome, the greatest emotion so far I have felt when I played at the Forum. But I also include Montecarlo, it will be because I live nearby.” Arnaldi who, while on the one hand on the Challenger circuit is by now an established name, at a higher level is struggling to find his dimension: “There is still a long way to go.
In the Challengers I have already proved enough, in the main ATP tournaments so far things have not gone as I hoped. In Doha and Dubai I was sick, I played with a fever. And sometimes I’ve just faced strong opponents, like Kokkinakis in the Indian Wells qualifiers.” Finally, a parenthesis on his fellow citizen Fabio Fognini, with whom he embarked on a different type of path: “Fabio wanted me in his management agency, our relationship has intensified in the last six months.
I also have good relations with other Italians, however, we are all friends. My best friend is Francesco Passaro, we grew up together.”
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