Tennis star Matteo Berrettini used to date an Italian model who once admitted to having sex “seven to ten times per week”.
2021 Wimbledon finalist Berrettini, 28, made headlines last year when he was spotted courting Melissa Satta in January. An Italian TV presenter and influencer, Satta is ten years older than the tennis pro – and while the age gap didn’t seem to phase the couple too much, their relationship would ultimately crumble this year for undisclosed reasons.
Announcing the split, Berrettini said: “Melissa Satta and I are no longer together. What I can say is that we had a beautiful, intense relationship and we have great respect for each other. I won’t go beyond this, I don’t like sharing my private life too much. Nothing special happened.
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“I must thank her for this period we lived together very intensely despite all the difficulties.” And Berrettini isn’t the only sports star that Satta has had a relationship with either. The WAG dated Italian legend Christian Vieri between 2006 and 2011, before hooking up with former AC Milan, Portsmouth and Spurs midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng the same year that her previous relationship ended.
And Satta would infamously make headlines herself in 2012 when she admitted that she was causing Boateng injury through bonking seven to ten times each week. She admitted: “The reason why he is always injured is because we have sex seven to ten times a week.
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“I hate foreplay, I want to go straight for it. I prefer to be on top so that I can be in control.” Despite the shocking admission, Satta later insisted that she is not a nymphomaniac – telling Gazzetta dello Sport : “You have to be very careful about what you say in football, especially when it comes to sex.
“Just because we have sex so often doesn’t make me a nymphomaniac.” Meanwhile, last year the beauty hit back at allegations that she had caused a similar injury to tennis ace Berrettini – explaining that the woe he had suffered was a reoccurring one from 2021. She told Vanity Fair : “Too bad it’s an injury in the same place as the one in 2021, when I didn’t know him. But in any case, do I really have to answer to these people?”
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Berrettini would make it all the way to the final of Wimbledon in 2021, beating Guido Pella, Botic van de Zandschulp, Aljaž Bedene, Ilya Ivashka and Felix Auger Aliassime on the way to greatness. However, a meeting with household name Novak Djokovic in the final would spell disaster for the Italian.
While he won the first set of the tie 7-6(7-4), three back-to-back losses of 4–6, 4–6 and 3–6 would send him home from the competition empty-handed. He was absent from the 2022 competition, and only managed a fourth-round finish in 2023 – and will no doubt be hoping to build back to greatness when he meets Hungarian Márton Fucsovics at Court 12 on Monday.