Davis Cup: also defeated Lorenzo Musetti, Canada beats Italy

Davis Cup: also defeated Lorenzo Musetti, Canada beats Italy

It è was already decided after the second singular the challenge between Italy and Canada at the Unipol Arena in Bologna valid for the qualifying round for the finals in Malaga, but to win it unfortunately were not the Azzurri of Filippo Volandri.

After Lorenzo Sonego’s defeat against Alexis Galarneau comes the equally surprising defeat of Lorenzo Musetti, world number 18, against Gabriel Diallo, number 158, by the score of 7-5 6-4. The 2-0 win for the Canadians makes the final doubles match irrelevant.

The first break point came at 3-3 in the first set and è Musetti had to save it. But the 21-year-old from Carrara lost his serve at 5-5 and è was forced to concede the first partial.

Same script in the second: Diallo concedes absolutely nothing while Lorenzo loses serve at zero at 3-3 and shortly afterwards also the match after a’storyless hour and 23 minutes.

Italy will now have to face the challenge with Chile with the burden of a very heavy defeat against the country of the maple leaf, which has beaten us four times out of four in Davis, but above all without having won a single set against two opponents much further back in the rankings than Sonego and Musetti.

Galarneau and Diallo were deployed by surprise by Canadian captain Frank Dancevic, who thus disrupted the plan of the Azzurri, who, without Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettinand with Fabio Fognini excluded by technical choice, probably thought they would be facing, in the absence of Felix Auger-Aliassime, Denis Shapovalov and Vasek Pospisil.

It è wasnè and the responsibilityè to win at all costs two seemingly easy matches in front of their own audience played a bad trick.