Lorenzo Musetti gets the better of Alex De Minaur 1-6 6-4 6-2 in the 1st round in London on Tuesday. Musetti will seek to keep on going in this event against Brandon Nakashima in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 3 minutes. His best achievement in this tournament was reaching the quarter in 2023. Here you can see his history at this event.
Highlights Lorenzo Musetti vs. Alex De Minaur cinch Championships – London
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Lorenzo won this match even if he won less points than De Minaur (81 vs. 86).
Musetti
The Italian was exceptional in converting all the break points (4/4).
De Minaur
On the other side, De Minaur was battling in converting his break points (only 33% – 4/12). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this match, the head to head between Musetti and De Minaur is 1-1.
Draw and next match H2H: Lorenzo Musetti vs. Brandon Nakashima – stats
Musetti will take on Nakashima in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Lorenzo Musetti and Brandon Nakashima since this will be the first time that they will face off in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Musetti conquered a good lead at the beginning of the set after breaking Alex De Minaur in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, there was more to do for the Australian to win the set because the Italian found the way to break back in the 2nd (1-1) game. Alex maintained his focus to break Musetti in the 3rd (2-1), in the 5th (4-1) and in the 7th (6-1) game.
Alex failed to serve out the set when leading 6-1 to be broken at 15.
Musetti was outplayed in the last 6 games of the set when the score went from 1-1 to 6-1.
The Australian was flawless in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40), the 3rd (1-1 40-A and 40-A), the 5th (3-1 30-40) and the 7th game (5-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, Musetti was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 2nd game (0-1 15-40).
They played 52 points. Alex won 14 points more than the Italian (33-19). The Australian conceded 7 points on serve (13-7). on the other side of the court, Lorenzo conceded 20 points on serve (12-20).
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Italian grabbed in the 5th game (3-2) just before ultimately conquering the set (6-4).
Musetti was on the money in converting all his break points in the 5th (2-2 40-A) and the 11th game (6-3 40-A). On the other side, Alex was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40), the 4th (2-1 30-40), the 6th (2-3 40-A) and the 10th game (4-5 40-A).
They played 76 points. The set was a huge battle since finally the Italian won just 2 more points than the Australian (39-37). The Italian conceded 18 points on serve (28-18). Regarding the other side of the net, Alex conceded 11 points on serve (19-11).
Musetti conquered a commanding position in the outset to break Alex De Minaur in the 2nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 4-0. That break was crucial for Lorenzo to win the set (6-2) since there were no other breaks anymore.
Musetti was clinical in converting the only break point that he conquered in the 3rd game (2-0 15-40). On the other side, Musetti didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They contested 39 points. Lorenzo conquered the set after winning 7 more points than Alex (23-16). Musetti dropped 7 points on serve (17-7). In addition, on the other side, De Minaur conceded 6 points on serve (9-6).
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- Lorenzo MusettiMusetti – Alex De MinaurDe Minaur (1-6 6-4 6-2)
- Tommy PaulPaul – Sebastian BaezBaez (6-4 6-4)
- Jack DraperDraper – Mariano NavoneNavone (6-3 6-2)
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Alejandro Davidovich FokinaDavidovich Fokina (7-66 3-6 6-1)
- Andy MurrayMurray – Alexei PopyrinPopyrin (6-3 3-6 6-3)
- Taylor FritzFritz – Taro DanielDaniel (6-3 6-3)
- Billy HarrisHarris – Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry (6-4 3-6 6-3)
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Daniel EvansEvans (4-6 6-3 ret.)
- Carlos AlcarazAlcaraz – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (6-1 7-5)
- Grigor DimitrovDimitrov – Adrian MannarinoMannarino (6-1 6-2)
- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Holger RuneRune (4-6 7-64 6-3)
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – Frances TiafoeTiafoe (7-5 4-6 1-0 ret.)
- Milos RaonicRaonic – Cameron NorrieNorrie (6-76 6-3 7-69)
Upcoming matches
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- Jordan ThompsonThompson – Andy MurrayMurray (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alejandro TabiloTabilo – Tommy PaulPaul (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Brandon NakashimaNakashima – Lorenzo MusettiMusetti (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Rinky HijikataHijikata – (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Carlos Alcaraz GarfiaAlcaraz Garfia – Jack DraperDraper (2-0) – H2H details and stats