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1. Voo de Mar says:

   October 22, 2022 at 8:14 pm

   Points won by each set: | 29-23, 40-45, 31-27 |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   19 % Musetti – 19 of 99
   13 % Alcaraz – 13 of 96

   Prior to this event, the 19-year-old Alcaraz [6] had won all his 10 sets played in the ATP finals! Musetti [62] somehow surprised his one year younger opponent with a clever clay-court game, and was on his way to stun him in straight sets… he led 6-4, 5:3. Then, serving at 5:4, he built 40/15 wrongly obtaining one point after a second bounce. At the double match point, the Italian sent his FH long, then he tried a S/V action for the second time in the final, only to be passed by aggressive cross-court forehand of Alcaraz. In the tie-break Musetti improved from 1:3 to *6:3, but wasted another three match points (FH wide, BH long – in 3rd strokes… and he was passed again… at 6:7 he committed a double fault). There was no break of servein the decider until Musetti held at ‘love’ to lead 5:4. In the 10th game a few casual errors of Alcaraz, helped Musetti to collect his maiden title (he had played an ATP semifinal already in his third main-level event – Sardinia ’20; he led by a set against Djere when cramps forced him to retire).

   Musetti’s route to his maiden title (40th main-level event):
   1 Dusan Lajovic 6-7(4), 7-6(4), 6-3 – 2 m.p.
   2 Emil Ruusuvuori 6-4, 7-5
   Q Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-4, 6-3
   S Francisco Cerundolo 6-3, 7-6(3)
   W Carlos Alcaraz 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-4

   Serve & volley: Musetti 1/3, Alcaraz 6/9

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2. Voo de Mar says:

   October 23, 2022 at 2:32 am

   Musetti saved match points vs Lajovic at 4:5 (unreturned serve) and 5:6 (overhead)

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