Lorenzo Musetti has made improvements in all areas of his game in recent months and has deserved to enter the Top 10 of the ATP rankings for the first time in his young career. By continuing to play in this way, the Italian ace has a serious chance of qualifying for the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin scheduled for November and becoming the second tennis player from his country to achieve this goal after his compatriot Jannik Sinner.
Musetti's hopes have been boosted further since young British star Jack Draper announced his decision to end his season prematurely due to an arm injury, although a few days ago the news was made official that he will return to action at UTS in London on December 5.
Waiting to understand the intentions of Novak Djokovic, who has only confirmed the tournaments in Shanghai and Athens for the moment, Lorenzo is continuing to win matches and not even the disappointment suffered in the final in Chengdu earlier this week has affected him.
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Musetti apologizes
The world No.9 reached the quarterfinals at the prestigious Beijing ATP 500, beating French veteran Adrian Mannarino rather easily today. His next opponent in the Chinese capital will be the young American Learner Tien, who eliminated the other Italian player Flavio Cobolli at the opening of today's schedule. Musetti was not well received by the crowd today due to his comments against Chinese fans during his previous match.
For this reason, he wanted to apologize once again: "I knew I would receive this kind of welcome today and I think I deserved it. I wanted to apologize at the end of the match by speaking into the microphone and I hope my gesture was appreciated. I'm happy with my performance and I'm looking forward to getting back into action. I've never played against Tien and we've never practiced together, maybe I'll ask Cobolli for some advice."
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This match is scheduled for tomorrow in the night session and promises to be very interesting.
