The Italian Lorenzo Musetti sprung a surprise on Thursday by dismissing Norwegian Casper Ruud in the round of 16 of the Paris Bercy tennis tournament by 4-6, 6-4 and 6-4.
Musetti, number 23 in the ATP, lost the first set against Ruud (world number 4), but later recovered and managed to lift the match after breaking his rival’s serve at key moments, in a match that lasted two hours and 19 minutes. .
In this way, the Norwegian extended his bad moment of form, which led him to add only two victories (first round in Seoul and Paris) since reaching the final of the last US Open.
In this defeat, moreover, Ruud said goodbye in a mathematical way to his few choices to end the year as world number 1. He is currently 1,710 points behind Carlos Alcaraz and can only add a maximum of 1,500 at the ATP Finals in Turin.
The Italian will face the winner of the match he will face later in the quarterfinals Novak Djokovic and Karen Khachanov.
Source: La Verdad
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