ATP Paris-Bercy, Lorenzo Musetti spills the beans

“Davis Cup? I hope to get on the field.”

Coming off a fine and clear-cut victory against Nikoloz Basilashvili in the round of 16 of the prestigious Paris-Bercy Masters 1000, Lorenzo Musetti is already focused on the next difficult engagement. Awaiting the Tuscan tennis player in the round of 16 will in fact be Casper Ruud, number 4 in the world ranking and the number 3 seed in the tournament.

“The opponent – Basilashvili precisely – started strong, he is very dangerous. In the game where I served a little bit worse, on 3-0, I suffered the break, because he puts so much pressure on you and doesn’t let you express your best tennis He always leaves you little time, he is very aggressive,” began the Azzurro in the press conference. “The match was set up very well, you could see that I had very clear what I had to do to bother him: I’m talking especially about the variations in the back, with the ball that tends to stay very low. I was really good today, because it was a difficult match in this respect. Growth is also seen in this. Here, maybe last year such a match I would have had a harder time winning it, or at least winning it so easily. Ruud? He is a player who has had some crazy games this year, however, he has also had stumbles during the season. We’ll see, I will try my best to try to win the next round.”

“Davis Cup? Obviously we all want the good of the team. Because if you then go and play with too many individualists, it is more complicated for the team to win. We saw the example of Italy in the European Championships: in my opinion we won because we were more team than the others. In Davis he will choose the captain, based also on who feels more ready to play, who physically will be better. There are still two or three weeks to go, so really anything can happen. Let’s hope well, I hope I can get on the court,” concluded the 20-year-old from Carrara.