Lorenzo Musetti, message to fans after withdrawal at Roland Garros
Lorenzo Musetti’s adventure at Roland Garros 2025 ended with a bitter withdrawal in the semifinals: Friday’s match against Carlos Alcaraz was well played by the Carrarino, who won the first set and was also very close in the second, but it was the evidence of physical problems manifested between the third and fourth that convinced Musetti himself to raise the white flag.
A few hours after the match ended, the Italian tennis player entrusted his official social profiles with a message addressed to his fans: “This is not the way I wanted to end this fantastic tournament – he wrote -. I will come back stronger”. Musetti then applauded the first finalist of the Paris tournament: “Always a pleasure to share the court with a friend” he said, quoting Carlos Alcaraz with a tag.
Musetti’s disappointment is strong and had already been expressed in the press conference on the sidelines of the closing match: “It’was a great match, the way it ended makes me very sad– said the second-best Italian tennis player, at the current ATP ranking level, behind Jannik Sinner -. I had the opportunity to go ahead by two sets but Alcaraz” level is very high.
Tennis Italy will therefore still have to wait for an all-Italian final in a Grand Slam tournament, a milestone that was instead achieved in women’s tennis at the 2015 US Open, when Flavia Pennetta beat Roberta Vinci in two sets. Musetti, who will move up to the No. 6 position at the next ranking update, will now have to undergo specific examinations to assess her physical condition and quantify how long she will need to recover from today’s knockout.
