Matteo Berrettini’s girlfriend Melissa Satta helps get over Wimbledon heartbreak.
Matteo Berrettini is enjoying some R&R in Sardinia with his model girlfriend, Melissa Satta, after his Wimbledon ouster.
The Italian world No. 38 — who was knocked out on July 10 by Carlos Alcaraz, the eventual Grand Slam winner — set sail in Italy Monday, according to photos Satta shared on Instagram.
The couple cozied up together on a boat with friends and Satta’s son, Maddox, who she shares with her ex-husband of 10 years, German soccer player Kevin Prince Boateng.
Satta shared a photo of her kissing the side of Berrettini’s cheek, while another snap of the pair included a heart.
Alcaraz defeated Berrettini, a 2021 Wimbledon finalist, in four sets to reach the quarter-finals for the first time — and went on to beat Novak Djokovic to secure his second Grand Slam.
Satta was present during the match.
“I think I still could have played better, but that’s tennis,” Berrettini said after the loss. “It’s not always what you wish for. Probably in a few days, I’m going to appreciate even more what I did.”
Berrettini appeared to be in good spirits while out on the water with Satta, a 37-year-old Italian television personality.
She went public with the romance in January after the two met through mutual friends in Miami.
“We talked to each other, exchanged the phone number and from there we started to hear from each other,” Satta told Vanity Fair Italia in May, when she graced the cover.
“The next day we both left, my life is in Milan, he lives in Monte Carlo.”
The couple kept up communication via “a thousand chats on WhatsApp,” Satta recalled, adding that she has spent time with Berrettini’s parents and he met her mother.
Satta also opened up about facing “bullying and sexism” online for months due to her relationship with Berrettini.
At the time, Satta hit back at those that blamed her for Berrettini’s abdominal injury, which kept the 27-year-old out of the Tennis Internationals in Rome in May.
Fans apparently ran with a baseless theory that the Italian pro became injured as a result of too much sex.
“I receive a lot of messages of insults, bullying and sexism,” Satta said at the time. “I have chosen to be a public figure, and I accept being exposed and exposing myself on social media, but I’m just trying to have a romantic relationship with another person, I simply want to try to be happy too.”
