Lorenzo Musetti demolishes Jaume Munar: he’s in the quarters at the US Open
Lorenzo Musetti flies to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open, settling Spaniard Jaume Munar in a completely one-sided challenge. The Carrara native, number 10 on the ATP circuit, managed to prevail in just over an hour and a half of play, dominating his rival in three sets. The final score speaks for itself: 6-3, 6-0, 6-1. For him it was his first quarterfinal on New York concrete, his third in a Slam tournament. All with the backdrop of a tantalizing scenario: the all-Italian challenge in the next round at Flushing Meadows with Jannik Sinner.
The start of the match only partly mirrors Musetti’s performance on the night, who after two games essentially on even terms snatched the 2-1 serve from Munar. In a set as quick as the subsequent ones will turn out to be, there is no particular shakeup until the acceleration that will affect the entire match: it cannot yet be known, but it starts in the ninth game when the Azure takes the second break and the set.
The first game of the match is the second one.
From this moment on Musetti in fact starts hammering the astonished Munar, who in the second set experiences a real nightmare. Already in the second game comes another break, which the Tuscan takes home on the second attempt. Instead, only one was enough to take the 4-0 and 6-0, in three games united by the ease with which the blue man brought them home and the fact that his opponent managed to snatch only one point from him in each of the three instances.
If the second set concludes in less than half an hour, the third and decisive set overtakes it by a handful of minutes. But it is no less one-sided than the one that preceded it. Munar breaks the negative streak by taking at least the 1-1 point, then his nightmare begins again: Musetti nullifies as many as four break points in the next game, but he only needs one more in the one after that to bring himself back to 3-1. The Spaniard doesn’t react anymore: the sixth game also closes with a break at 15, the Azure holds serve and nails him on the 6-1 final.
