Musetti, Top 10 and Finals at risk

Lorenzo Musetti stopped in Paris. Carlos Alcaraz, in the semifinal of Roland Garros, was missed from that player who before getting hurt, the traces were lost. Of course, the injury prejudiced the season on the grass, where in 2024 he had done very well to Wimbledon, but the return to the cement was to say the least traumatic, for the number two blue. Defeated in the first round in Washington, elimination in the third round in Toronto against Michelsen, another disappointment to Cincinnati’s debut against Bonzi. Three defeats in the last four games on the cement, four of the last five, if we count the one against Novak Djokovic in Miami, where the Serbian had given him a severe lesson (a double 6-2). A roller not as a player who aspires to arrive among the best eight in the world at the end of the year and therefore participate in the finals of Turin, which until a few weeks ago seemed obvious for Lorenzo, given the incredible score on Earth, where he agreed a final (Montecarlo) and two semifinals (Rome and Paris), complete with entry into the top ten. All things now under discussion.

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In the live ranking, the Tuscan is currently in ninth place, but with many opponents behind a few points, and already at the end of Cincinnati there is the risk that the blue will come out of the top ten. Even in the Race Musetti it is ninth with 2670 points, therefore at the moment it would be in Turin from first reserve, and also has a good advantage over the tenth, Casper Ruud (2235 points), another that has accumulated several points on Earth, but to detach the ticket for the Piedmontese capital you want anything else. It is clear that Musets to have serious rankings of the ranking, must also make a qualitative leap on concrete, given that 70% of the circuit, during the year, play on these fields. Curious, among other things, because the last tournament won by the 2002 class is precisely on this surface, in Naples in 2022, when in the final he got the better of Berrettini.

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A long time passed, few satisfactions have come to continue on the cement, even if in 2024 Lorenzo was winning a tournament on the tough, in Chengdu, where he lost in the final against Shang Juncheng. Apart from the technical problems, on the concrete (not new, from the opening of the blows to a rebound that does not allow him to express himself at the best, to the very effective service on this surface), in Cincinnati the “old” museums, the nervous and fluctuating one of the past years, and his words, his outburst (“I make the dead, the deaths that walk! emblematic. Not the first moment no, in Lorenzo’s career, and it will not even be the last one. Certainly it has always come out stronger, and this time the conditions too because they happen there are all.