The tennis player from Carrara has reached the second week in Paris for the first time in a slam tournament: Tartarini’s pupil will face the number one in the world, in an unprecedented challenge
Lorenzo Musetti does not stop dreaming. At the first participation in the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament, the tennis player born in 2002 has reached the second week. And now there is a sacred monster in the round of 16: Novak Djokovic, world number one and finalist last year at Roland Garros, with the defeat against the unbeatable Nadal. The Majorcan will instead face Jannik Sinner. Whoever wins between Musetti and Djokovic will face Berrettini or Federer in the quarter-finals.
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Two easy victories, one suffered. Musetti has already seen them all in the first three rounds at Roland Garros: after winning smoothly against the Belgian Goffin and the Japanese Nishioka, the pupil of Simone Tartarini overtook Marco Cecchinato in the blue derby, in a battle with spectacular shots . Musetti imposed himself in five sets after losing the first one and having been ahead two sets to one, before the Sicilian returned to the game. A spotless path instead for Novak Djokovic, who arrived in Paris with the unspoken goal of ousting Nadal and getting closer to the Spaniard and Federer for the number of slams won (now 18, against 20 by Rafa and Roger): the Serbian has not yet lost a set and eliminated Sandgren, Cuevas and Berankis.
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So Lorenzo Musetti’s dream 2021 continues. After the first flashes shown in 2020, the Carrara tennis player reached the semifinals in Acapulco and Lyon, being defeated in both cases by Stefanos Tsitsipas. At the first slam of the season, the Australian Open, the 2002 class went out in the qualifiers, failing to enter the main draw. In Melbourne, on the other hand, Novak Djokovic triumphed, in the final against Daniil Medvedev. On clay, the Serbian lost in the final in Rome to Nadal and won the home tournament, in Belgrade, against Molcan. The current world number one won Roland Garros once, in 2016, and lost four times in the final. The king of Paris is Nadal, Djokovic aims to remove the scepter from the Spaniard. And Musetti doesn’t stop dreaming. The two players have never faced each other in their careers.
June 6 – 11:27
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