“I felt the need to have something more and see what others can bring to us. He can bring more suggestions, more experience to my team.” Lorenzo Musetti presents Jose Perlas. The tennis player from Carrara – who ended the year from number 8 in the ATP ranking – he has in fact included the former coach of Ferrero, Tipsarevic e Fognini. A figure that does not replace Simone Tartarini – who still remains Musetti’s coach – but complementary. The two they will work together to allow Musetti to take further steps and try to aim for the maximum: that is, to fill the gap with Carlos Alcaraz e Jannik Sinner.
“We are working hard per start well especially in Australia. Because when I talk about Simone (Tartarini, ed.) I’m talking about “us”, the relationship we have is beyond the tennis one. I think having a figure come Pearl it’s something I wanted but I didn’t have the courage and the need that I felt this year to take the step forward to close the gap with the two leaders of our Tour”, explained Musetti during the podcast on Youtube Of Gill Gross. “It’s not guaranteed, but I’m trying to work in every physical detail, mental, feedingeverything to improve also l’1% of my game, of my body. I’m trying hard to close that gap”, declared Carrarino.
The world number 8 then spoke about the proposal Of Work initial of Pearl and the Work which is being carried out inoff-season: “When I offered him a place on the team, we talked about what he saw, what he thought it was missing. Ero agree on the wholejust as Simone was. Be very aggressive, work hard on every part of tennis, even off-court: try to recover Betterspend time with family, eat well, sleep well. It was a full frame that I really liked and his work in the field and his collaboration with Simone is going well, so I’m Very felice and I can’t wait to get started Hong Kongwhich will be my first tournament next year.”
Meanwhile Musetti is working hard towards the season 2026which will see him make his debut all’ATP 250 Of Hong Konga tournament that will take place from 5 to 11 January. Carrarino’s goal is to improve after a excellent 2025 and return to winning a tournament: Musetti’s last ATP success dates back to until October 2022. To do this, Musetti will have to get closer to Alcaraz and Sinner, against which in 2025 he always lost.
“I played with Carlos several times, with Jannik I only played once New York and it was one defeat difficult because I couldn’t express myself totally – said Musetti -. I wanted to have one sorta Of revenge o to chance Of play against him to understand what I could do better, but I didn’t have any other chances. With Carlos I played great tennis, especially on the terra and in some matches I was ahead a set to zero, but naturally to maintain his level I ended up getting injured“So here comes the need to improve, especially from the point of view atletico: “To close the gap with them I have to work really hard on the physicistwhich I’m doing.”
Finally, Musetti discussed the technical changes brought especially to servicethe most important element of its notable growth in recent months and which allows it to be more solid in his shifts Of joke e di command The exchanges: “I didn’t change any movements, I stayed with what you had seen from the US Open until the end of the year and this is something that gave me a lot of confidence on fast pitches and it’s something we’re working on to be more continuous, strong and precise. I think that’s a lot important for me and for my game if I want to be more aggressive starting with first shots: serve, return and shots after the serve. This is my main focus on the technical side. We all agree.”
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