2023-04-22 16:21:23
Stefanos Tsitsipas, 5th in the world, defeated Italian Lorenzo Musetti 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 on Saturday and advanced to the final of the ATP 500 tournament in Barcelona, where he will face the winner of the second semi-final between Carlos Alcaraz and Daniel Evans.
Despite the two breaks taken by Musetti (20th in the world) in the first set, the Greek quite easily pocketed this first set by displaying a breathtaking level, but gave up a match point at 5-4 in the second set which revived the Italian.
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Tsitsipas recovered in the third set to reach the final of the Catalan tournament for the third time, after his two failures in 2018 and 2021 against Rafael Nadal.
The seeded N.2, however, played its toughest match of the tournament this Saturday: after easily defeating Canadian Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 6-2 in the round of 16 and Australian Alex de Minaur 6-4 , 6-2 in the quarters, Tsitsipas conceded his first set of the tournament to a Musetti winner by default of his compatriot Jannik Sinner (sick) in the previous round.
Three months after his final at the Australian Open in January, the 24-year-old Greek continues his strong start to the year and will play for his first title on clay on Sunday since winning the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo last year. .
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