Lorenzo Musetti returns to the Florence knockout and goes down flat

Musetti sheds light on his semifinal defeat in Florence

Lorenzo Musetti wants to look ahead and makes no secret of his ambitions for the Naples ATP, but in his pre-tournament press conference he inevitably returned-answering a specific question-to what happened a few days ago in Florence, during the semifinal against Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Musetti denied that he had any anxiety or panic attacks, however, specifying that “what happened in Florence, honestly, I can’t explain it myself. It’s a feeling that came to me on the field, not before. Most likely I felt some responsibility, some expectation, it all came suddenly. But there was no panic attack.”

“It was a physical problem, pressure had nothing to do with it,” the Carrara native explained further, “because already in the first game I turned to the corner and told Simone (Tartarini, Musetti’s coach, ed.) that I felt I had to throw up. So it was more of a physical thing, like indigestion, even though I had eaten three hours before and it wasn’t that. But pressure and panic, again, had nothing to do with it.”