Lorenzo Musetti sheds light on Jannik Sinner
The words of Lorenzo Musetti
Lorenzo Musetti joked at a press conference after qualifying for the quarterfinals of the tennis singles tournament at the Paris 2024 Olympics: “Easy, stay calm, I don’t know if even I if this turning point in my career is definitive, I hope so".
"I started badly, è it was important to be able to turn it around right away, it gave me great awareness. I was good and focused in the right moments to turn this match”. For Fritz, as mentioned, it è was the third knockout in the last three encounters: “I don’t think he’ll want to meet me again this year, this win confirms the good moment I’m having and the leap in quality I’ve made. Before I had a lot of ups and downs, now only ups, forò I would like to think that the downs are forgotten, but let’s take it easy. Of course, the more I win, the more I gain awareness, even in handling the difficult moments that inevitably come in the game. In the last two years I struggled to play calmly and make the right choices, now everything seems easier".
Between Musetti and a medal there's also Alexander Zverev, world No. 4 and Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo: "Just in case, he will face him without fear. A great player, defending Olympic champion, but I think I can play him. We faced each other only once, but I withdrew. I don’t have a measuring stick. Do you play a good backhand? Everyone has their favorite stroke, even Fritz. The secret è not to give him time and space, and to bring him into my web of variations. It canò be an interesting match“.
Closing remark on Jannik Sinner: "It’ was his choice, the reaction of the group I didn’t see it because I wasn’ t in Paris yet, but I think he felt he was unable to perform here, otherwise he would have come and we would have had a very strong team. I feel sorry for the guys who were left out, like Cobolli who as a world No. 50 deserved to be here. I think the rules need to be revised, it cannotò be on the board a three hundred world no. from another country and not our fifty".
