Lorenzo Musetti in semifinals in Umag

Lorenzo Musetti in semifinals in Umag

Lorenzo Musetti, who is expected to play at the Olympic Games in Paris, è forò in the semifinals on the Croatian clay in Umag. The 22-year-old from Carrara beat Serbian Dusan Lajovic, world number 53 and a specialist on red clay, in the quarterfinals with a score of 5-7 6-3 6-0 in two hours and 15 minutes of play.

Musetti makes the break immediately n the opening match manel in the fourth game suffers the counterbreak. On 4-3 Lajovic saves two break points, has in turn two on 5-5 but then on 6-5 è forced to concede and goes down by a set.

In the second partial two breaks in favor of Lorenzo, who on the opponent’s turnovers from 1-1 onwards always has at least one break ball, while he no longer concedes even one. The decisive breaks to win the second set are in the third game, even to zero, and on 5-3, when he evens the score on the third set point.

In the third set Lajovic disappears from the court while Musetti è increasingly bad and determined and closes the match with a series of eight games in a row from 4-3 i his favor in the second set. The blue world number 17 will now face Czech Jakub Mensik, number 81.