On one side of the net will be a man who already knows what it is to don the Mutua Madrid Open crown. On the other, a player looking for the first big title of his career to consolidate his considerable progress. The Manolo Santana Stadium will provide the stage for a thrilling final between Alexander Zverev and Matteo Berrettini.<\/p>\n
The German and Italian will be bidding to succeed Novak Djokovic as the king of the Caja M\u00e1gica. For the fifth seed it is a chance to pick up his second trophy (2018) on the clay in the Spanish capital and equal Andy Murray on two titles (2008 and 2015). It would be a more surprising win for seed number eight as this is his first appearance in the main draw, having played in the qualifiers in previous years.<\/p>\n
In their head-to-head on the ATP Tour, Zverev leads with two victories to Berrettini\u2019s one. The Hamburg native won in 2018 in Rome (7-5, 6-2) and a year later in Shanghai (6-3, 6-4). For his part, the player from Rome picked up his win in his native city in 2019 (7-5, 7-5).<\/p>\n
The world No. 6 will have experience on his side, having played in seven ATP Masters 1000 finals, winning in Rome and Canada (2017) as well as the above-mentioned triumph at the #MMOPEN. However, for the world No. 10, this will be his first appearance in a final of this magnitude.<\/p>\n
Berrettini, Italian tennis\u2019 highest ranked man, is the second player from his country to play for a Masters 1000 title this season after Jannik Sinner did so in Miami. The last of their compatriots to win a title was Fabio Fognini in Monte Carlo (2019).<\/p>\n
What the finalists had to say about their clash:<\/strong><\/p>\n Zverev: \u201cThe job is not done yet. I hope I can do well tomorrow. I have a very difficult opponent. I hope I can continue playing and performing the way I am. He’s been playing exceptionally well this week. He was hitting the ball so hard, serving extremely well\u201d.<\/p>\n Berrettini: \u201cIt’s going to be a challenging match, but I’m in the finals. I saw him, he’s playing really well. He’s solid. He moves well. For his height, he’s really good. He serves well. I mean, he’s in the final. He beat Rafa and Dominic, probably the best players on clay. It’;s going to be a challenging match\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On one side of the net will be a man who already knows what it is to don the Mutua Madrid Open crown. On the other, a player looking for the first big title of his career to consolidate his considerable progress. The Manolo Santana Stadium will provide the stage for a thrilling final between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76203,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,18,179],"tags":[112,41,125,201,11,17,686],"class_list":["post-76202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-tennis","category-mutua-news","category-tennis","tag-alexander-zverev-en","tag-atp-en","tag-matteo-berrettini-en","tag-mmo-en","tag-mmopen","tag-mutua-madrid-open-en","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desarrollo.mutuamadridopen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}