ATP 500 Beijing: history-less defeat for Lorenzo Musetti against Carlos Alcaraz

ATP 500 Beijing: defeat without history for Lorenzo Musetti against Carlos Alcaraz

For the second time in three direct confrontations Carlos Alcaraz beats Lorenzo Musetti and he does it very cleanly, with a double 6-2 in one’hour and 21 mnutes in the second round of the’ATP 500 in Beijing, where è number 1 seed.

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After a good start by Musetti, who held serve to zero in the first game, Alcaraz took over and twice took the serve away from the 21-year-old from Carrara, world number 18, flying 5-1, and closing shortly after the first partial after saving two beak balls in the eighth game.

Alcaraz makes another break immediately in the opening of the second set, then has to save a counterbreak ball in the next game while managing to hold serve. The double break, as in the first partial, comes in the fifth game and from here the match has no more history, if even before it ever had any…

The 20-year-old Spaniard from Murcia thus qualifies for the quarterfinals of the tournament on the concrete of the Chinese capital and will now face Norwegian Casper Ruud, who folded at the tie-break of the third set after a battle of almost three hours the Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry.