Roland Garros, Lorenzo Musetti crashes Holger Rune and flies into quarterfinals

In the round of 16 of the men’s singles at Roland Garros, world number 7 Lorenzo Musetti beat Denmark’s Holger Rune, number 10, by a score of 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-2 and qualified for the quarterfinals for the first time on the Parisian clay.

Musetti goes up 2-0 by breaking in the first game but then gets overrun at 3-2. On 4-4 new break in favor of Lorenzo who goes to serve for the set, nullifies a break point, misses a set point and finally has to suffer another counterbreak.

Musetti’s first break in the first game was a set point.

It’s not over: another break in favor of Musetti at 5-5 and to finish, the 23-year-old from Carrara holds the serve at 15 and at the first set point. A single break decides the second set and it is in favor of Rune in the sixth game.

Musetti comes back to break his opponent in the second game of the third set flying 3-0 and, like Rune in the second set, keeps the lead without any problem until the end of the partial.

The fourth set is dominated by Lorenzo, who flies to 2-0 and then 5-1 obviously with a double break, and then closes the match on the second match point after 3 hours and 18 minutes of play. Now the Tuscan will meet the American Frances Tiafoe, who defeated 6-3 6-4 7-6 German Daniel Altmaier.