A simply divine Lorenzo Musetti defeats Taylor Fritz and flies to the semifinals at Wimbledon , where he will face Novak Djokovic. The tennis player from Carrara prevails over the American number 12 in the world, the big favorite of the match, after approximately 3 and a half hours of play with the score of 3-6, 7-6, 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 .
Yet at first everything seemed to be going wrong. Fritz immediately goes ahead 6-3, 1-0 and serve, but Musetti places the counterbreak and from that moment another match begins. The blue enchants the number 1 court of the All England Club and stuns the solid and expert American tennis player with brilliant tennis and an authentic master class of variations, made up of wonderfully affected backhands, short balls, lobs, continuous changes of trajectory and sudden accelerations.
Musetti takes the lead at 5-3 but loses serve at 0, the second set is therefore decided in a tiebreak in which the Italian wins 7-5. Fritz is down, not even his powerful serve can neutralize a Musetti in a state of grace, who wins the third set 6-2 .
In the fourth set we move forward following the service shifts, Fritz becomes more offensive and in the eighth game he scores the break which leads him to serve for the set. It ends 6-3, and everything is decided in the fifth, when Musetti returns to tennis and immediately takes the lead 5-0. It ends 6-1, for Musetti it is the first Slam semifinal and the highest moment of his short career . On Friday the match against Djokovic , who went through the round without playing thanks to De Minaur's forfeit. On Thursday, in the women's competition, Paolini challenges the Croatian Vekic, again in the semifinals.
(Unioneonline/L)
