Matteo Berrettini revealed his schedule for the first two months of the 2020 season. The world number 8 player will start his next season in Perth at the first edition of the 2020 ATP Cup where he will team up with Fabio Fognini. Italy will play against Russia on 3nd January. Berrettini will play at the Melbourne Australian Open, which will start on 20th January. He will continue his 2020 season on South American clay with the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires and the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro before taking part at the ATP 500 in Acapulco and at the Sunshine Double Tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami.
The Italian 23-year-old player broke into the top 10 of the ATP Ranking on 28 October and reached the career-high at world number 8 on 4 November. In his breakthrough season Berrettini became the first ATP Finals singles qualifier from Italy since former number 8 player and current Davis Cup captain Corrado Barazzutti in 1978. Berrettini won two titles in Budapest on clay and Stuttgart on grass and reached ATP 500 semifinals at Halle, Vienna and became the first Italian player in history to reach a Masters 1000 semifinal in Shanghai. He became the second Italian player in history to reach the US Open semifinal and the fourth player in the history of Italian tennis to reach a Grand Slam semifinal following in the footsteps of Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti and Marco Cecchinato. Berrettini reached the Wimbledon fourth round by defeating Diego Schwartzman after saving three match points.
