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Lorenzo Musetti was born the same year, 2002, that Stan Wawrinka turned professional. But on the first night of the 18-year-old from Carrara’s life at a Masters 1000, the boy with acne on his face was expelled from the Internationals the three-time winner of a Slam tournament. All true, like the television blackout that – also due to the heavy rain that delayed the start of the match – interrupted the live broadcast in the final phase of a dream first set for Lorenzo. Six games to zero in 24 minutes.
And to think that even in the second, things seemed too easy, with the Swiss lost in the first service. There was the catch: it couldn’t be that easy. But even as the game became more balanced, Musetti’s legs did not tremble.. He won in the tiebreaker, dominating that too (7-2). No 2002 had ever won a game on the ATP circuit. “I have yet to realize it,” says Lorenzo. In the first set and at the beginning of the second there was no game and I don’t think Wawrinka expected it to start well. I tried the Centrale this afternoon for the first time and I was already feeling strong. I was good at not passing me and taking it to the tiebreaker. Many times I thought “man, you’re winning with Wawrinka”: I had all the credentials not to do it, but in the end I was focused and what makes me most happy, because the mental aspect is what I’m working on the most. . Tennis is the best day of my life: the first win in 1000, without an audience, is still a wonderful thing. I greet my friends, my family and send them a kiss: I have no words.
Lorenzo, current number 249 in the world ranking, winner of the Australian Open at junior level in 2019 (HERE: the interview with Gaia Piccardi at the time) but still in the second match on the major circuit (debut was there at the beginning of the season in Dubai), it plays like a marvel one-handed backhand of which Wawrinka is a global ambassador. The Swiss, perhaps surprised by the start of the opponent at a thousand, only began to play from the middle of the second set, launching two shouts in the sixth game of the second set (the one in which he achieved the counterattack) to try to scare too. Musetti, who already in the last qualifying round against the other talent Zeppieri found himself under the sign of the last kilometer before his life got complicated.
Buffon and Bernardeschi were born in Carrara: football, but also balls, which Lorenzo threw rackets at his grandmother’s garage door. Musetti now trains in La Spezia with coach Simone Tartarini, who in the stands – next to him, also Umberto Rianna – initially opened his eyes when he saw his pupil dominate Wawrinka, then realized once again – if he had needed – that behind Jannik Sinner there is another blue hope. In On the scoreboard, in the Foro Italico, there are even eight left, also considering Marco Cecchinato’s success in three sets (3-6 7-6 6-2) against the British Kyle Edmund: it had never happened before.
Tomorrow are the top five: Matteo Berrettini (against Coria), Salvatore Caruso (against Djokovic), Stefano Travaglia (against Coric), Jannik Sinner (against Tsitsipas) and Marco Cecchinato (against Krajnovic) will take the field. On Thursday, however, with Fognini and Sonego, the dream of the little big ones will continue Lorenzo, against the Japanese Nishikori.
September 15, 2020 (change September 15, 2020 | 23:42)
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