International, Musetti has made the leader without a psychologist

Lorenzo Musetti has experienced the art of DIY, demonstrating that in sport, and in life, there is not only one way to success. Of course, the semi -finalist blue in Rome makes use of an exceptional team of professionals, composed of the historical coach Simone Tartarini and the athletic trainer and physiotherapist Damiano Fiorucci, supported by Corrado Barazzutti and Roberto Petrignani. But no mental coach or psychologists. A year ago, these days, Lorenzo has decided not to be followed by anyone for the mental aspect. He had tried to work with a sports psychologist, but he didn’t feel that it was an effective job on him and, consulting with his team, he had decided to suspend the collaboration. Roomly, in the last 12 months Musetti has exploded. To try to understand the reasons for this definitive qualitative leap, you need to take a few steps back.

the parable

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Lorenzo has always been accompanied by great expectations, endowed how a sublime technique is, authentic representative of that poetic tennis now in the process of extinction. At the beginning of 2023, at the age of 21, he had already entered the top 20 players in the world. But it was not constant and continued to give the idea of ​​an unfinished project. Then he was a little lost by rushing defeats repeating in the early months of 2024. It was then that something was triggered in the head. He played two Challengers, in Cagliari and Turin, right in the weeks of the internationals in which he had immediately come out, at the hands of n.137 Atmane, retiring after losing the first set. “I dirty my hands starting from the minor circuit, I found myself,” he will tell later. Since then it has been another one other museums. At Roland Garros he fought to the fifth set against Djokovic in the third round, on the grass arrived in the final at Queen’s and, above all, in the semifinal in Wimbledon. Then the final in Umago and the Olympic bronze in Paris (beating Fritz and Zverev).

in 2025

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The current season immediately saw him protagonist on the surface he loves most, the earth. In Montecarlo he went to the final, thanks to four super comebacks against Bu, Lehecka, Tsitsipas and De Minaur (in addition to the victory in two sets on Berrettini). Those games, with the first losses and performances in the physical and mental level, would have lost them in other times. At the final act, the defeat in three sets against Alcaraz, with the regret of the accident that in fact prevented him from playing the final final. At the Foro Italico, tomorrow, there will be revenge. But that week in the Principality, as Lorenzo recalled last night after the victory against Zverev, “he gave me confidence, awareness of my means and my level, even if it was already for a long time that I felt more ordered in the field”. In the wake of Montecarlo the Madrid semifinals arrived, who allowed him to revenue in the top ten, and those of Rome who, regardless of tomorrow’s result, will lead him on Monday to get at least at the eighth place in the ranking.

Family all this arrived working on himself, without the help of a Mental Coach or a psychologist. “It’s flour from my sack. I improved in daily work.” The truth is that, reached 23 years old, Musetti became a man. In the body, as the trainer Fiorucci told us (“he completed physical development”), and in the mind. A path that had a key passage in the birth of the son Ludovico and in the construction of the family with his partner Veronica, whose presence evidently given stability and certainties in Lorenzo’s life. They live together with Montecarlo, where the tennis player is as well as the other top players. And they move together to some tournaments, as to the international ones. Between a training and a feed.