In Marrakech Musetti and Vavassori make it to the quarterfinals

Finally Lorenzo Musetti. After a worrying series of defeats in the first round and a confidence that was a little lacking (word of his coach Simone Tartarini), the 20-year-old blue has found victory and also a smile. In 2023 Lorenzo had only brought home one match, at ATP level, against Cachin in Buenos Aires, and today he repeated in 250 on the red clay of Marrakech, Morocco (broadcast in the clear on Supertennis). Bye in the first round as the number one seed in the tournament, the 21-year-old tennis player from Carrara, No. 21 ATP, defeated the Frenchman Hugo Gaston, 104th in the ranking, in the round of 16, with a score of 6-2 6-3. A slightly more complicated match than what the score suggests, with Musetti good, unlike the other times this year, in mentally holding after an immediate counterbreak at 2-1 and service in his favor. Lorenzo kept his calm and didn’t let the Frenchman hold him back, on the contrary as the match progressed he found glimpses of the game that made us fall in love with this talent who promises great things for the future. For a place in the semifinals, the Tuscan will face the winner of the other Italy-France match between Francesco Passaro and Alexandre Muller.

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Another Italian forward, Andrea Vavassori, who qualified for the quarterfinals in Morocco at the end of a match that can be defined, without the possibility of denying it, as epic. The 27-year-old tennis player from Turin, n.201 ATP, coming from the qualifiers, defeated the Spanish Jaume Munar, 83rd in the ranking, in the second round, by 6-7(4) 7-6(6) 6-4 at the end of 3 hours and 12 minutes fought, very fought, with two match points saved on 4-6 of the second set tie break, before putting in four points in a row, which turned the situation around. The match had been postponed to today due to the rain which effectively stopped the program yesterday. For a place in the semifinals, Vavassari will face the British Daniel Evans, seeded number 2, who got rid of the Australian Alexei Popyrin 6-1 6-3.