Musetti and the ATP Finals: thus aims to reach Sinner in Turin

Italy dreams of the brace. Established in 1970, the Masters tournament never – today ATP Finals – saw the qualification of two blues in the same edition. Panatta in 1975 and Barazzutti in 1979 (he played in January) were the pioneers. Then Berrettini in 2019 and 2021, when he injured himself and was replaced by the Sinner Reserve. Jannik returned from the main door in 2023 and, after the triumph in 2024, this year he has already detached the pass for Turin, for the third consecutive time. Lorenzo Musetti could reach him, and it would be another record for this age of Italian tennis gold.

plan

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Lorenzo begins his race for the Finals tomorrow, where the first eight of the ranking access. It is series head n.1 in tournament 250 of Chengdu, China, and debuts directly in the second round against the Croatian Prizmic. Next week will play the 500 of Beijing, then the 1000 of Shanghai (1-12 October). At that point the circuit will move to Europe where the season will be completed. Musetti enrolled in the race at 250 in Brussels (13-19 October), in addition to the 500 in Vienna (20-26 October) and 1000 in Paris (27 October-2 November). A one and a half month tour de force to play all possible cards. And in the week preceding the Finals, on 9 November, there would be a last opportunity (a 250, in Athens or Metz) to raise precious points. Beninth, this is a theoretical agenda. Participation in some tournaments will depend on the results that Musetti and its opponents will collect and, therefore, on the evolution of the ranking.

calculations

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The 23 -year -old Carrarino is ninth in the world, but with a view to the finals, the Race ranking makes text, the one that takes into account only the results of 2025. Here the blue is eighth with 3070 points, to 75 from De Minaur (seventh) which can be overcome doing well in Chengdu. Virtually Musetti would already be seventh, given that the presence in Turin of the N.3 Djokovic appears unlikely (“Before the Australian Open 2026 I have only planned the ATP of Athens,” said Nole a few days ago). Who should you look at Lorenzo? Not from Jack Draper, ninth: he closed 2025 in advance due to an injury in the left arm. Decimo is Auger-Aliassime with 2705 points, back the others: Rublev 2410, Ruud 2285, Khachanov 2210, Rune 2190, Bublik 2145. In short, there is excellent probability that Italy will make brace.

Super 2025

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Musetti knows he had to make the last effort of a fantastic year, which saw him enter the top ten. After the campaign on the protagonist earth (final in Montecarlo, semifinals in Madrid, Rome and Paris), the injury to the adductor remedied against Alcaraz at Roland Garros has compromised the commitments on the grass. The rebirth has materialized with the quarters of the US Open, never reached before. Now Lorenzo is very physically well and is ready to draw on that reserve of energies that has still remained, unlike other players who are struggling with ailments or feel “squeezed”. After New York, a few days of vacation; Last week, the resumption of training in Montecarlo. A physical call has been made, without exaggerating, dedicating the time necessary also to regeneration. By playing tournaments so close, there is no space to do more: you have to preserve what you have and go on with the energies you find yourself. The athletic trainer Damiano Fiorucci explains, who follows Lorenzo, alongside coach Simone Tartarini, also in the Asian trip: “It is important to use small workloads, constant over time. With Lorenzo we make short but high intensity sessions. The goal is to stimulate all the systems without overloading”.

service and football

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From a technical point of view, in recent weeks Musetti has been paying particular attention to the service: targeted training sessions, because it wants it to become a decisive blow. ATP statistics place it in 36th place in the service rating, an algorithm that measures the overall performance of each fundamental. Lorenzo does not want to neglect anything. Everything is designed to extract the maximum from the next commitments. The conquest of the ticket to Turin is a fixed thought. But Lorenzo is serene, thanks to a maturity that has already made the difference on his path. Fiorucci and Tartarini thought about diluting the climate, who in China brought his son Nicolò to make a group. In the evening we find ourselves at the table of an Italian restaurant and avoid talking about tennis. The most popular topic? Football. Musetti is Juventus, coach and trainer are Inter players. After the last 4-3 the teasing were inevitable …