By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Friday, Might 16, 2025
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Going through all-court acrobat Carlos Alcaraz, house hero Lorenzo Musetti conjured airborne magic.
Watch Musetti go full Muse Man mode with this hovering fashionable backhand overhead that evokes recollections of phenomenal frontcourt gamers Adriano Panatta and Patrick Rafter.
This leaping angled overhead moved supreme shotmaker Alcaraz to applaud the magic.
Regardless of that electrifying winner, Musetti couldn’t stand up to Alcaraz’s assault.
Reigning Roland Garros champion Alcaraz defeated Musetti 6-3, 7-6(4) to succeed in his maiden Rome closing and deny Foro Italico followers the prospect of an all-Italian males’s closing.
World No. 1 and residential hero Jannik Sinner faces Eleventh-seeded American Tommy Paul in tonight’s semifinal. The winner faces Alcaraz, who has received 26 of his final 28 clay-court matches, in Sunday’s closing.
