The whole blue derby with Matteo Berrettini goes to Lorenzo Musetti in the round of 16 of the “Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters”the first Masters 1000 on the batting land of the current season at the Country Club in the Principality of Monaco, with a total prize pool of 6,128,940 euros. The Carrarrino tennis player, series head number 13, imposed himself on the Roman in two sets, with the score of 6-3 6-3.
For a place in the semifinal Musetti will see it with the winner between the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, a sixth seeding force, and the Portuguese Nuno Borges.
Musetti: “Stressing match, difficult to play against a friend”
«It was a very stressful game and not only why it is always difficult to play a derby, against a friend, a teammate. And there was also a lot of emotion, to play in front of my family and with many Italians on the stands, with a cheering that was 50 and 50 “. So Lorenzo Musetti after the victory over Matteo Berrettini in the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Montecarlo. “Mentally it was a demanding match, also because I knew I could not leave anything to Matteo, who can recover you at any time – continued the Tuscan tennis player -. Now I want to stay focused on the next game and we hope to continue like this ». Musetti in the quarterfinals will face one of the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas and the Portuguese Nuno Borges, while Berrettini after the beautiful victory over Alex Zverev will look at the next commitments, having to also evaluate the problem at the right foot that limited him to the final of the match, also forcing him to ask for a medical time out to make it fascia.