Lorenzo plays very well the first two sets but loses the second to the tie-break and the Spanish in the third becomes unsurpassed, then an injury to the thigh forces the Italian tennis player to retire on 0-2 of the fourth set and the dream of the final vanishes
Two sets played in a spectacular way, an unfortunate tie-break that moved the balance of the game to the side of Carlos Alcaraz And in the end a painful retreat for a thigh injury. It was not a lucky afternoon On the Roland Garros plant for Lorenzo Musettiwho played a beautiful tennis in the first two sets, putting the best player in the world on a beaten earth in great difficulty. Alcaraz continues to be a taboo for the Italian tennis player, beaten this season by the Spaniard in the Montecarlo final and in the two semifinals of Rome and Paris. And with the third consecutive defeat against Carlos the dream of an all -Italian final against Yannick Sinner who tonight in the other semifinal Nole Djokovic challenge. Musetti has little to reproach himself because he chose the right tactic to put Alcaraz in difficulty, continuously varying his game and playing every point as if he were the last one won the first set and in the second he recovered the two breaks twice, suffering Alcaraz al Tie-break. Here there was the turning point of the game: the Spanish on 4-1 was helped by the tape and won 7-6 in just over an hour. Musetti lost certainties and the inertia of the game at that point was all on the side of the Spaniard who no longer made a mistake by dominating above all from the physical point of view. And the first signs of the accident came who would then forced muzzles to retire. At the beginning of the fourth set, the carrarrino made himself massaged his thigh from the physiotherapist, but the situation did not improve so much that on 2-0 for Alcaraz he decided to raise the white flag. Probably Musetti from the physical point of view has accused the tiredness of the Paris formula, which like all the Grand Slam tournaments is played in every game at the best of 3 sets out of 5 with a expenditure of energies enormously higher than the other tournaments that include two sets out of three.
