Matteo Arnaldi is enjoying a resurgent end to his clay-court season. After winning an ATP Challenger 175 event in Italy and reaching the third round in Rome, the Italian is in the fourth round at Roland Garros for the second time and a victory from reaching his first major quarter-final.
“I’m super happy,” the No. 104 player in the PIF ATP Rankings said after his third-round win.
But Arnaldi is not only happy on court. Off the court, he is just months away from marrying fiancee Mia Savio. They have been together since 2022.
“I’ve been lucky because from the start, she was able to travel a little bit with me,” Arnaldi told ATPTour.com earlier this year. “She was finishing university in Australia. We were from two different countries, very far away from each other, so we had to move in together pretty quickly.”
At the start, Arnaldi admitted it was not always easy. Arnaldi and Savio led different lives and came from different cultures. But they have only grown closer over the years, and are getting married following this year’s US Open.
“When you are committed to something, when you really care about the other person, you want to make it work,” Arnaldi said. “Things lead to other things, and then this year there is the marriage, the wedding. It's something special that we have been planning. More [work] for her, not much for me!”
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Arnaldi and Savio have enjoyed planning for the wedding and most importantly, spending time together whenever they can.
“We’re loving all the preparations, all the big questions that they are giving to us. The only thing is the list. The list is getting longer and longer, so we had to cut out some things,” Arnaldi said, cracking a laugh, before reflecting on how nice it is when Savio is on the road. “It is nice to have family with you that you can spend time and just switch off a little bit from the tennis and enjoy a night out.”
It is safe to say that Arnaldi has been able to focus on his tennis, while Savio has led with most of the planning.
“She's much better than me [with making the decisions], I wouldn't choose anything. But we are doing it in my hometown, so that's already the big thing for me. I'm good with that. The rest she can do,” Arnaldi said. “She can choose, she can plan everything and I'm happy with that. I don't want to make mistakes or anything. It's our day, but it's more her day, so she has to make it perfect. Happy wife, happy life.”
Savio, who is often at tournaments alongside her partner, created her own tennis and pilates clothing brand, which the Italian is proud to support.
“She's doing amazing there. She's building the brand. It obviously is not easy in the world now to get into the clothing world because there are so many [brands],” Arnaldi said. “Everyone is doing so many things. Now even the fashion brands are doing sports clothes and stuff. It's not easy, but she was very brave to get into that, to create her own line, and she does everything.”
It was important to Arnaldi to keep their relationship more on the personal side and not bring their careers too much into their personal lives, even if Savio played high school tennis and understands the sport. “But it's good to have someone you can talk about when at night or whatever, when maybe you don't feel comfortable talking to other people about that,” Arnaldi explained.
That has been especially important within the past year. The Italian struggled with a persistent right foot injury, which impeded his rise. Earlier this year, Arnaldi lost eight of nine matches at all levels before turning things around with his title in Cagliari.
“She's been with me a lot with the injury that I had. I was out for a little bit. It was the first time in life that I've been injured and stayed out of the Tour for a little bit. But also just struggling, not being able to practise like I always did,” Arnaldi said. “I was coming home and I was limping around because I couldn't put the foot down. It was just tough for me. I also couldn't do normal things in life because I couldn't walk in the house or I couldn't go and get some stuff. So it was weirder for me — [especially] because I never experienced that before — and now I dropped in the rankings as well.”
While Arnaldi dealt with that, he began speaking with Savio, who helped provide support. It was not about tennis, but helping keep the Italian in a positive frame of mind.
“Things like ‘You’ll get there, it's not a big deal, it's not like you don't have the level’ and things like that,” Arnaldi said. “It’s not actual tennis. Actual tennis, we don't talk much about that.”
But Savio will be in the box to support Arnaldi, like always, when he takes on Frances Tiafoe for a place in the Roland Garros quarter-finals.
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