{"id":395142,"date":"2022-12-10T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395142"},"modified":"2022-12-11T08:30:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T13:30:17","slug":"italys-berrettini-sets-eyes-on-maiden-grand-slam-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/italys-berrettini-sets-eyes-on-maiden-grand-slam-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy&#8217;s Berrettini sets eyes on maiden Grand Slam win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Matteo Berrettini is confident that he is in the group of top Australian Open favorites as he admits his big goal for the 2023 season is to finally become a Grand Slam champion and to also return to the top-10 in the world ranking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Matteo Berrettini has his \ud83d\udc40 set on trophies in 2023 \ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JIj82ppk0U\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JIj82ppk0U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1601283036540112897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I consider myself as one of them [top players],&#8221; the world No 16 told Eurosport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I remember playing Alcaraz at the beginning of the year and I felt that he is a great player and he had great potential. I didn&#8217;t expect him to go up that fast but he deserved it so good for him. At the same time, Novak and Rafa are always Novak and Rafa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re always going to be there. Age-wise I&#8217;m in the middle of them, but I feel that I can get back to that level, and obviously the goal is to get back in the top 10 and see from there. Last year, before the hand surgery I was at my best ranking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was six in the world. I know that it is my level and I know I can get back there. Why not even better?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the 26-year-old Berrettini had his best-ever Australian Open run as he made the semifinal before losing to Rafael Nadal in four sets.<\/p>\n<p>Berrettini had a bad luck at Grand Slams this year. After undergoing a hand surgery, he was forced to miss the French Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian Matteo Berrettini is confident that he is in the group of top Australian Open favorites as he admits his big goal for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395143,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[5443,17120],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 26-year-old had his best-ever Australian Open run in 2022 as he reached the semifinals","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395142"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395142"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}