When Lorenzo Musetti plays at the ATP Finals: background with Carlos Alcaraz

Lorenzo Musetti won a very important victory last night against Australian Alex De Minaur at the end of a match that lasted almost three hours, his second in the preliminary round of the ATP Finals named after Jimmy Connors.

The 23-year-old from Carrara now has a chance to qualify for the semifinals, but ahead of him is a very tough obstacle: world No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, with whom he will play tomorrow night at 8:30 p.m. at the earliest on the indoor concrete of Turin’s Inalpi Arena.

What does Lorenzo have to do to qualify? He must first beat Alcaraz, but he would necessarily have to do so in two sets if tomorrow, in the match starting at 2 p.m., the U.S.’s Taylor Fritz, who won in the opener against the Italian, beats Australia’s Alex De Minaur.

The precedents in this regard are not too encouraging: Alcaraz has won seven out of eight matches between ATP, Challengers and Futures, and Musetti’s only win came in 2022, when he beat the Spaniard by a score of 6-4 6-7 6-4 in a memorable final on clay in Hamburg. On an indoor court, however, it will be their first match.