Lorenzo Musetti gave no option to the Australian Alex de Miñaur, Sixth favorite, and as it happened a few weeks ago in Montecarlo achieved the triumph 6-4 and 6-2 to stand in the quarterfinals of the Masters 1000 of Madrid that will play against Canadian Gabriel Diallo and Ensure from next week a place among the top ten in the world.
The most unbalanced duel of the four played so far between the transalpine and the oceanic fell, again, on the musetti side that has been imposed on three of them, the most recent.
Until the clash that completed the day in the Magic Box all duels had been matched, resolved in three sets. This time, Musetti only needed an hour and twenty -three minutes and two sets to meet his goal.
There was no rematch for De Miñaur that fell into the semifinals of the 1000 Masters of Montecarlo. The Italian reached the final he lost with the Spanish Carlos Alcaraz.
It still does not exceed the round of 16 in Madrid in Miñaur that has always stagnated in the round of 16. With nine titles, finalist this year in Rotterdam, he did not find a way to break the serve of his rival, intact at all times.
He crossed the fourth round, however, Lorenzo Musetti, eleventh of the world and now the quarterfinals are his new roof. Carrara’s coach, in his fourth presence in Madrid, enjoys his best season. It is the fourth quarter of a 1000 masters that Musetti gets, bronze in the Olympic Games of Paris 2024.
“In the first set he had some option to break my serve but I could control it. In the second, my right made the difference“The Italian player said on the track that for the first time in his career, at 23, he will have a place among the ten best in the world.
“It was a very anticipated goal. I have worked hard to achieve it. I don’t want to stop in the quarterfinals; I want to continue. Now a hard game awaits me that I hope to get ahead,” added the Italian.
Musetti is a usual one in, at least, the round of 16 in the land tournaments. He was UMAG finalist in 2024, a semifinalist at the Paris Games, rooms in Buenos Aires in this 2025 and finalists in Montecarlo.
De Miñaur, meanwhile, could not overcome Carlos Alcaraz in terms of number of victories so far from 2025. Both accumulate 24 so far. Musetti deprived him of the twenty -fifth.
The Italian will play in the quarterfinals with the Canadian Gabriel Diallo who traced the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov 5-7, 7-6 (7) and 6-4.
