The Italian who has just conquered the number 5 position in the world ranking defeated by the Kazakh: seventh final lost in a row by Lorenzo who has not won a tournament since October 2022
He stops in the final at the ATP 250 in Hong Kong Lorenzo Musetti. The Tuscan tennis player was beaten in two sets by Kazakh Alexander Bublik with the score 7-6, 6-3 in an hour and 38 minutes of play. A balanced match in the first part, then conditioned by the right arm problem suffered by Musetti at the end of the first set. With this victory Bublik secures entry into the top 10 for the first time in his career. Musetti, on the other hand, bids farewell to Hong Kong with the new best ranking of n. 5 in the world. The appointment with the victory of a tournament is therefore once again postponed, for Lorenzo Musetti, with the seventh final lost consecutively since 23 October 2022, when he beat Matteo Berrettini in Naples. Meanwhile the Tuscan he became number 5 in the worldhe made two slam semi-finals and won an Olympic bronze, but never raised a trophy in the sky again.
Musetti disappointed
Lorenzo was keen to win in Hong Kong to start 2026 well, but the problem with his right arm prevented the comeback after the first set was won by the Kazakh in a tie-break. In the very balanced second set, Bublik got the greak in the third game and then in the fifth, at which point there was nothing left for the Italian to do. “It’s not easy to talk after a defeat, especially after a final.”. This is how Musetti made his debut during the ATP250 awards ceremony in Hong Kong, which he lost against Alexander Bublik. “First of all congratulations Alexander, not only for today but for the wonderful season you had last year and you couldn’t have started better this year. We have played many finals in the last three years, unfortunately we haven’t lifted any trophies and let’s hope the next one is the right one.”
