{"id":86437,"date":"2025-04-11T19:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/?p=86437"},"modified":"2025-04-11T19:20:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T17:20:55","slug":"musetti-topples-three-time-monte-carlo-champion-tsitsipas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/musetti-topples-three-time-monte-carlo-champion-tsitsipas\/","title":{"rendered":"Musetti topples three-time Monte-Carlo champion Tsitsipas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Musetti\u00a0earned a milestone victory Friday at the\u00a0Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters. The Italian scored his first win against\u00a0Stefanos Tsitsipas\u00a0in his sixth Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting against the Greek and advanced to his maiden ATP Masters 1000 semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti fought off the three-time champion 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, backed by a brave serving performance, saving 14 of the 17 break points he faced, according to Infosys ATP Stats. In the final set, the 13th seed erased four break points at 1-2. Moments later, Tsitsipas double faulted down break point at 3-3 as Musetti stormed towards a two-hour, 21-minute victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday was a really tough match. I knew that before today I never beat him and we played five times. Especially on clay, I knew against a three-time champion, definitely not an easy job today,&#8221; said the\u00a0Paris Olympics\u00a0bronze medalist, who captured his ninth Top-10 win. &#8220;I found a way and I was increasing during the whole match. Really, really happy and proud of this win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nZD42-_U0Jw?si=ixidG39eTPRfCBOw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Tsitsipas looked to run around his backhand and crush his forehand, that wing also created 23 of his 45 unforced errors. Musetti adopted a deep return position and played with great variety, hitting his one-hander down the line precisely and creating delicate drop shots that bit sharply on the sun-baked court.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old will next face eighth seed\u00a0Alex de Minaur, who breezed past\u00a0Grigor Dimitrov\u00a06-0, 6-0 in the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti, 13th in the PIF ATP Live Rankings, could crack the Top 10 for the first time should he win his biggest career title.<\/p>\n<p>Tsitsipas entered the quarter-final clash with a perfect 5-0 record against Musetti, with four of those meetings on clay. The 26-year-old is now 20-2 in the Principality since 2021, having won the title in 2021, 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian reaches semi-finals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Musetti topples three-time Monte-Carlo champion Tsitsipas - Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/montecarlotennismasters.com\/en\/musetti-topples-three-time-monte-carlo-champion-tsitsipas\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Musetti topples three-time Monte-Carlo champion Tsitsipas - 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