by Marco Calabresi
In Miami it ended with a double 6-3 for the Spaniard, but there was a match. The blue has long held his own against the number 2 in the world (and number 1 in the draw
We only have Jannik Sinner left, on the pitch tonight against Machac, but the one who will return to Europe to play tournaments on clay and be close to little Ludovico who has just been born is another Lorenzo Musetti compared to the one at the beginning of the season. Carlos Alcaraz is still from another dimension, but Musetti’s new dimension can give rise to hope. In Miami it ended with a double 6-3 for the Spaniard, but there was a real match: the crowd had fun, Lorenzo held his own against the number 2 in the world (and number 1 on the scoreboard) for a long time, also taking part in the show with one of the best points of the week in the third game of the second set. Musetti tweener, Alcaraz tweener and backhand volley. Everyone standing.
For the rest, against Alcaraz you can’t even allow a shorter shot or an empty pass: Carlitos punishes you. And not even a false start, the one that led Musetti to suffer a break in the opening game of the first set, from which he was unable to recover. In the double tweener game, Musetti had the first break points of the match: both canceled, the second with a jump smash. And so Alcaraz took the break first again, flying 4-2 with a counter-block on Musetti’s short ball.
The blue, a few weeks ago, probably would have given up and would never have played a game again: this Musetti, however, did not stop fighting and immediately recovered the turn of serve by also taking advantage of a backhand miss by his opponent (4- 3). Immediately afterwards, however, the third break in a row arrived, which effectively put an end to the match, closed shortly after by Musetti with a backhand at the net. The 37% of points won with the second serve are too low, the forehand is not very effective, unlike the usual marvelous one-handed backhand. But Musetti, in this week spent in Miami, returned to win two games in a row, something he had been missing since September (in Chengdu). Let it be a starting point.
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March 27, 2024 (modified March 27, 2024 | 08:03)
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