Lorenzo Musetti in the final at Queen’s

Lorenzo Musetti in the finals at Queen's

Lorenzo Musetti, world number 30, è qualified for the final of the prestigious Queen’s tournament by beating on the London grass the Australian Jordan Thompson, number 43, with a score of 6-3 3-6 6-3, and now awaits the winner of the U.S. derby between Thierry Paul and Sebastian Korda.

Musetti breaks immediately in the second game of the first set, then on 4-1 he has two consecutive double break points but misses them, however in the next game he has to save two consecutive ones and shortly afterwards closes the partial at the first opportunity by holding serve at 15.

In the second game of the second set è the blue to have to give up the serve and unfortunately he also loses it in the fourth game, so Thompson goes to 5-0, serves a first time for the set on 5-1, loses the serve, but the second on 5-3 è the good one.

Musetti holds serve on the advantages in the first game of the third set then in the next one he has two beak points but does not exploit them. On 4-3 the 22-year-old from Carrara misses three more break points but the fourth è the decisive one and soon after closes the match by holding serve to zero after two and a quarter hours of play.