Jaume Munar made a deserved comeback against Italian Lorenzo Musetti by 2-6, 7-6(4) and 7-5 and reached the semifinals of the Hong Kong tournamentthe first he achieved in his career on a surface other than dirt.
The 27-year-old Spaniard, who has been out of this section of an ATP tournament for nearly two years, He showed that he got the size of the Italian tennis player he always beat. Musetti, the seventeenth player in the world, was clearly in the lead but could not stop the Spaniard’s reaction.
Munar, who defeated Musetti in three previous duels on a dirt track -Florence, Antalya and Santiago de Chile- and one on grass, at Wimbledon, added to his record the victory on cement, in Hong Kong, after turning the situation and seal the victory within two and a half hours.
The Spaniard will face Alexander Muller in the semifinals which led to another surprise of the session when he defeated fellow Frenchman Arthur Fils, fourth seed, 3-6, 6-3 and 6-1.
Source: La Verdad
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