The sport of tennis is set for a defining season in 2020. With the top three players in the world over the past 15 years – Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer – entering the twilight of their careers, new players have emerged as genuine threats to their supremacy.

In this eight-part series, we’ll assess each player in the top eight and what they can achieve in 2020. We’ll look at how their positions are under threat and what they can do to attain their goals in the season to come. It’s never easy to look forward, but with our 2020 vision, you’ll have the benefit of hindsight when you’re talking tennis during the next 12 months.

We continue our series with a look at the 8th best player in the world at the start of season, Italian player Matteo Berrettini. Having sneaked onto the ATP Finals list at the end of 2019, the eight-best player didn’t threaten the final, but he has proven his pedigree over the 2019 season. Can he strike it big in 2020?

Berrettini’s highlights reel from his play in Rome last season suggest that he has a chance: