ATP Estoril, out Lorenzo Musetti

ATP Estoril, out Lorenzo Musetti

In his debut match in the’ATP 250 on the clay of Estoril. an eighth final after he had been exempted from the first round with a bye as the number 3 seed on the board, Lorenzo Musetti, world number 24, è was beaten with a score of 7-6 6-3 by Portuguese Nuno Borges, number 62.

È Musetti the first to break at 2-1 in his favor in the first set but immediately gave it back, then saved a break ball at 3-3. On 6-5 the 22-year-old from Carrara has two set points but misses them and then ends up losing the tie-break 7-4.

The start of the second set è disastrous for Musetti who loses the first 12 points, to which must be added the last two of the first, and then goes down 0-3, with a break suffered in the second game. The Italian could no longer recover the disadvantage, missing a break point at 5-2 and Borges closed the match after an hour and 35 minutes of play.