Musets never so strong: the reverse in one hand, the progress on straight and service, the mental turning point. Where it can arrive

Final In Montecarlosemifinal in Madridsemifinal in Rome, fourth Final to play From Favorito to Roland Garros. Yes, Lorenzo Musetti has become great. Technically magnificent in its best days but often betrayed by its own attitude, now it is The long -awaited clic, the mental one, also arrived, which « makes me think of top 10 », as he said to Madrid a few weeks ago and that « he put order in my tennis chaos », as told instead of Paris after the victory against Navone who preceded the first in a Slam against another top 10, Holger Rune, with whom he had lost in the two previous challenges. « In terms of tactical intelligence and consistency I consider it one of my best games »said Musetti after success on the Danish.

Here, thinking from top 10 means Find alternative solutions to win games from a tactical point of view and one constancy of performance in the strokes that they have never been missing since Carara bordered on La Spezia to train with Simone Tartarini that talented tennis and – Mats Wilander copyright – « So different from that of others ».

In the era of childishness, Musetti is the only top 10 to play the backhand in one handbut now the service have also become more incisive – of which it has improved the movement – and the right: the result is a percentage of victories that compared to the previous seasons has gone. It remained above 60% only in 2020, the year of Covid: with 24 wins in 31 games we are over 77%.

Lorenzo has grown: LAt first paternity he changed his life, he responsible for him. Soon lFamily will expand to four (his partner Veronica is waiting for the second child)and his oasis of tranquility outside the field will become even more beautiful. Ludovico, the eldest son, has not yet seen him win a tournamentbut keeping this performance sooner or later will happen.

Musets climbed up to the seventh position of the ranking (Virtually it’s number 6, but the big names are all the big one in the race), even without raising trophies, Davis aside: The first and last at ATP level won them in 2022, in Hamburg and Naples, before seven finals lost consecutively, the first of which in the United Cup 2023, when he retired after a set for a shoulder problem against Frances Tiafoe, who will be his next opponent to Roland Garros, with the prospect of another semifinal against Carlos Alcaraz, as in Rome.

That museums was probably still a teenager. Long hair, hat with the overturned visor, nervousness scattered every time things were not going welland that things did nothing but worsen them. This museums, however, just a year ago she gave a first accelerated to her career, on the grass: semifinal in Stuttgart, final at Queen’s, a semifinal in Wimbledon, the first at the Slam level. For the second it could be a matter of hours, but the feeling is that there will be many others.