Musetti wins in the first round in Montecarlo against Bu

A good initial, then a suffered and deserved success. On the main field, Rainier III, Lorenzo Musetti wins at the debut of the Masters 1000 in Montecarlo: the Chinese Bu Yunchaokete, number 67 of the world beaten in comeback, with the result of 4-6 7-5 6-3 in two hours and 39 minutes of play. In the same tournament in which last year he defeated the then number one in the world Novak Djokovic, the blue finds success on red earth in this 2025 after a complicated start of match, due to a more aggressive and attentive bu compared to his opponent. In the second round of the first 1000 on its most winning surface, Musetti will face the Czech Jiri Lehecka, who passed the American Sebastian Korda (6-3 7-6).

The first set

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On the hunt for his first victory in a main draw of a red earth tournament, BU immediately creates problems for a non -concentrated and particularly phalloid museums. In the first game of the match, the blue goes below 15-40 and thus suffers the cold break. The 23 -year -old Chinese exploits the absence of a reaction from his opponent and attacks with each blow, especially on the reverse diagonal. Bo sends further and further away from the bottom line Lorenzo, who cannot stage his various and vast tennis repertoire. Thus the initial break becomes fatal for muzzles, which is forced to give in the first part despite the high percentage to the service, which touches 81% and more winning than its opponent (8 against 7).

The comeback

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Nervous and increasingly hasty in the management of the points, the blue goes in difficulty again at the beginning of a second partial. It is wrong, the choices are wrong, play a bad short ball and undergoes break again at the beginning of the set. It is a magic “to the Musetti” that awakens the blue: below 0-2, the game opens by showing off a wonderful Lungolinea reverse. And from here the comeback. In the eighth game he recovers the break and with another Lungolinea reverse, in response this time, take the set. In the third falls the intensity and spectacularity of the match, but the level of museums rises. Play the most important points better and take the break in the sixth game. With a servant and volleyball as a manual, brilliant as only Lorenzo knows how to be, closes a long and tiring game.