Lorenzo Musetti immediately out in Shanghai

Lorenzo Musetti immediately out in Shanghai

A resounding defeat for Lorenzo Musetti in the second round of the Shanghai Masters 1000, his debut match in the tournament. The 21-year-old from Carrara, world number 17, è was beaten with the score of 6-3 6-4 in just over an hour and 20 minutes of play by Taiwanese Yu-Hsiou Hsu, number 184.

Musetti could not find a break from the first game, in which he immediately lost his serve, and in the next game he failed to materialize two counterbreak balls. In the fifth game comes the double break, 1-4, he recovers it immediately but gives up his serve for the third time in the ninth game and this costs him the first set.

In the second set until the ninth game the two players hold serve but Musetti has to cancel a break point in the second game and as many as four in the fourth. On 5-4 for Hsu però comes the break that costs Lorenzo the defeat, the Asian tennsta closes the file on the second match point.