Lorenzo Musetti’s crisis continues: out on debut in Dubai as well.

ATP 500 Dubai: Lorenzo Musetti-Arthur Cazaux 4-6 6-7

The negative moment for Lorenzo Musetti continues. The Carrara-based tennis player, in fact, after Rotterdam and Doha, è surrendered on his debut also at the Dubai ATP 500. The Italian è was defeated in two sets by Frenchman Arthur Cazaux with a score of 6-4 7-6, in a match that clearly highlighted the Italian's complicated moment.

In the first set the start è comforting for the Tuscan, as he managed to break serve in the third game. After managing to confirm the break, albeit with great effort, the Italian player drops in intensity and the momentum shifts in favor of Cazaux, who brings the score back to even in the sixth game and closes the score in the tenth game on 6-4.

In the second partial, the difference in confidence between the two è even clearer, as Musetti manages to hold serve with enormous difficulty, while the Frenchman, thanks also to excellent firsts, cashes points more easily. After saving a match point in the twelfth game, the number 26 ranking finally collapses in the tie-break committing several errors that are skillfully exploited by Cazaux, who closes the accounts on the score of 7-2.

In the next round, the Frenchman will face the number two seed in the tournament Andrey Rublev, who defeated China's Zhang Zhizhen in the opener with a score of 6-7 6-2 6-4.