For Italian tennis player Berrettini, advancing to the Australian Open semifinals is a great success. Berrettini started the new tennis year at the ATP Cup, where he fell with De Minaur and Medvedev. He scored his only win over Humbert of France. At the start of the Australian Open, he lost Nakashi and Kozlov. In the third round, he fought a four-and-a-quarter-hour battle with Alcaraz, but eventually advanced after a supertiebreak victory. In the round of 16, Berrettini showed a great performance and lost to Carreño-Bus in three sets. Berrettini played another long match in the semifinals. He led Monfils 2: 0 to the sets, but in the end he advanced to the victory 6: 2 in the fifth set.