The Italian tennis internationals immediately lose Lorenzo Musetti. The 22-year-old tennis player from Carrara, number 29 in the world, retires after losing the first set at the Centrale del Foro Italico 7-5 against the Frenchman Terence Atmane. Visibly out of condition, the blue player played the first set without forcing, but succumbed to his opponent. After losing the first set 7-5, Simone Tartarini’s student raised the white flag, at the beginning of the second set he retired after a game won by the Frenchman. For the 22 year old from Boulogne-sur-Mer, in the third round one between Yoshinito Nishioka and Grigor Dimitrov.
Without Jannik Sinner, out due to injury and without Matteo Berrettini, much of the hopes of Italian tennis at the Italian Internationals were pinned on Lorenzo Musetti, who was fresh from defeat in the final against the Argentine Mariano Navone at the Challenger in Cagliari . Musetti was the Italian with the best ranking (n.29 ATP) in the draw of the Masters 1000 in Rome. We will see him again in the next edition at the Foro Italico. The blue tennis player had rightfully reached the second round thanks to a ‘bye.
