Roland Garros, Lorenzo Musetti drops a set but advances to the round of 16

Lorenzo Musetti, world number 7, advances to the round of 16 in the men’s singles at Roland Garros by beating with the score of 4-6 6-4 6-3 6-2 Argentine Mariano Navone, number 97.

The 23-year-old from Carrara lost his serve already in the first game of the match, recovered from 1-3 to 3-3 but in the seventh game lost his serve again, Navone saved three balls of the second counterbreak in the next game and shortly afterwards won the partial by holding serve to zero.

Once again in the first game of the second set Lorenzo loses serve but recovers from 0-2 to 2-2, then there are two more breaks in the next two games. At 5-4 in his favor Musetti makes the decisive break to win the partial set and evens the set count.

At 5-4, Musetti’s break was the decisive break to win the partial set and evens the set count.

For the third time in three partials Musetti loses serve in the first game, this time after saving three break points and capitulating on the fourth, he also does not let it break him, indeed, he flies to 4-1 with a break lead. On 5-2 she has two set points, misses them but in the next game, after saving a breal ball, the third set point is the good one.

In the fourth set it is finally Lorenzo who breaks in the first game, on 2-0 he has two set points for 3-0, he does not exploit them but the double break comes anyway in the fifth game. Musetti has no more problems and closes the match after 3 hours and 25 minutes of play. In the next round he will face the winner between France’s Quentin Halys and Denmark’s Holger Rune.