Musetti eliminated in Toronto: out to the sixteenths against Michelsen who wins in comeback

Six match points are not enough canceled to Lorenzo Musetti to win a game that at that point would have had some miraculous. The disappointment for the Tuscan, series head number 3 of theATP 1000 of Toronto, It is so great, given that the opponent, the good Alex Michelsen, n. 34 of the world, it was widely within its reach, like the first set, dominated by the blue, has shown. Instead it’s over 3-6 7-6 (4) 6-4 For the American in two hours and 34 minutes, for his second career victory against a top ten. For Musetti, therefore, the opportunity to get to the round of 16 and to forfeit a few points to keep the top ten positions in the ranking and for the finals of Turin is going. Cement, certainly not its favorite surface, and the physical form not yet 100% have certainly conditioned the performance of the Tuscan, which however had the match in hand.

The decline is then good start

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In the first set Musetti had dominated far and wide, above all thanks to a very solid service (89% of the first, four ace) and an almost total exchange control. Everything seemed too beautiful, too easy. It was immediately understood that the second set would have been more fought, even if the first break balls, wasted, were for the blue. After the breaks of breaks for Michelsen also, it came to the tie break, played splendidly from the American, much less from museums.

No octave

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In the third Lorenzo starts well with a break, however lost almost immediately, and evil. After other occasions wasted on 2-1, the decisive break arrives the game after, and is by Michelsen. Musetti has another chance on 4-3, but the American year and in the end, after 6 matches points, he manages to take home the meeting. Musetti remains the disappointment of a game he could, he had to win.