Alexander Zverev failed at the ATP Masters in Rome in the quarter-finals on Lorenzo Musetti. In particular, the Italian’s stop balls found two Germans set in position, which in the end lost 6: 7 (1: 7), 4: 6.
It was a great tennis evening where Zverev played properly, but found his master in a better opponent. The German defending champion did not take advantage of his chances, 36 unforced errors and thus 15 more than his opponent. He used his break chances freezing cold and shone with playful finesse – class stops, brilliant passenger balls, and in contrast to Zverev, also with variant wealth between the basic line and network attacks.
Zverev has three set balls in series
Zverev had already completely unnecessarily gave the first sentence. After a balanced course, he made the break to 6: 5 with a dominant game from the baseline with a dominant game from the baseline and had three set balls with his own serve at 40: 0. But instead of pulling through his game, the Hamburger became passive, always missed the right moments for network attacks and let Musetti back to the match. And the suddenly turned up.
The Italian fended off all three set balls in a row, then even a fourth and actually still managed the rebreak. The tiebreak then came to a true demonstration of the German. Musetti quickly took the lead with 3-0 and then played 4-0 and 5-0 two cheeky stop balls in a row. At that time he had successfully designed the past eleven points ten, the mood of Zverev sank increasingly – and the tie -break went to the Italian with 7: 1.
Serve and volley at the match ball
In the second round, Zverev caught again, played at eye level, but the use of opportunities and passivity in crucial game situations remained his shortcoming. Musetti, on the other hand, varied outstandingly, sprinkled his stops again and converted his second match ball with a seren-and-and-volley attack that the Hamburg had no longer had to oppose.
Musetti meets Carlos Alcaraz (Spain) in the semi -finals, who moved past Zverev again in the world rankings and clads second.