Carlos Alcaraz V Lorenzo Musetti: Atp Finals Tennis – Live

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I mean, what a turnaround.

I consciousness for Fritz, but it’s still beautiful.

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Good evening and invited to nan ATP Finals 2025 – time five!

I can’t retrieve nan past clip nan group stages of this title were this good. And nan moreover amended news is, we’re not done yet – not by a agelong chalk.

On Sunday, Alex de Minaur mislaid to Carlos Alcaraz then, connected Tuesday, he mislaid to Lorenzo Musetti successful beforehand of a baying Turin crowd – nan 16th clip successful a statement he’d grounded to hit a top-10 player. Victimised by his diversion limitations and already playing astatine his ceiling, his question and reply aft that 2nd lucifer was grim viewing, a model into nan agony and torment of elite sport.

If I really want to beryllium superior astir taking nan adjacent measurement successful my career,” he said, “these matches, I can’t suffer ’em. I conscionable can’t. I mean, it feels for illustration I’ve mislaid a batch of them this year. I mean, much than thing it’s getting to a constituent wherever mentally it’s sidesplitting me.

It’s thing that if it doesn’t get sorted, it’s going to eat maine alive. I request to get it sorted sooner alternatively than later. Yeah, I don’t cognize really galore times I tin woody pinch a nonaccomplishment for illustration this one.”

Sore, right? So why americium I subjecting america each to it again, earlier a lucifer successful which he’s not moreover playing? Because this afternoon, he produced 1 of nan gutsiest displays we’ve seen this twelvemonth to hit Taylor Fritz – truthful superb successful losing to Alcaraz nan different time – successful consecutive sets, eliminating nan American successful nan process and redeeming himself. Now, then, if Alcaraz thumps Musetti – and nan crowd – this evening, he’s into nan past four.

Musetti, though, will not simply rotation over. He’s played loads of late, spending past Sunday losing to Novak Djokovic successful an epic Athens final, but someway he’s still going, his comeback against nan aforementioned Demon truthful improbable it felt pre-ordained – particularly erstwhile he ended nan title pinch a hardly believable victor which defied nan laws of physics and sent nan arena stratospheric.

Doing thing akin against nan world nary 1, though, is simply a different thing. But it’s going to beryllium very typical watching him – and nan crowd – try.

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