Fury Sinner, Gioia Musetti. Beyond all expectations. Two Italians in the quarterfinals of Fllushing Meadows: the golden youth of blue tennis is staged in New York. It had never happened that two Italians faced each other in the quarterfinals of a Slam in the history of tennis: 29 direct clashes in the majors but never beyond the third round.
Two surreal matches. Bublik hit by Jannik’s fury: three games left to the opponent and closed practice in less than an hour and a half and accounts put back in order after Halle’s slide; Munar overwhelmed by muzzles in the same time span in which he gave only four games to a stunned and incredulous opponent.
Overflowing evening, which projects Sinner and Musetti towards a historical derby, of extraordinary technical interest. And here opens another chapter: what weapons do the two have to bend the other? Sinner will plant himself on the cross-country line and push on the reverse diagonal, Musetti will try to put his friend-opponent in difficulty by focusing on the top spins so as not to let Jannik play at the height of the hip: on the horizontal game Lorenzo has no chance. So the advance in Sinner’s impact, the variations of museums. The percentages to the service will be decisive, especially for museums if it wants to move the match forward. It will be hard. Sinner is with Alcaraz the best renorer of the circuit. Jannik at the joke has more margins: he can still trigger the exchange.
Closed prediction? Nothing is impossible in this sport of moments and loneliness, but Musetti has too many circles of fire to overcome. And Paolo Bertolucci has already regretted it: “It hadn’t been on the side of Sinner’s scoreboard, Musetti could dream of the semifinal”. However it goes is eighth in the race, the Turin Master with the first 8 in the world is in the sights. Possible goal, a dutiful goal to be chasing in October. We enjoy the youth of sea bream