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1. Voo de Mar says:

   June 6, 2025 at 4:25 pm

   Points won by each set: | 28-33, 44-39, 24-5, 8:2… |
   Points won directly behind the serve:
   13 % Alcaraz – 12 of 83
   16 % Musetti – 19 of 90

   Due to rain, played under the roof… Musetti [7] has become a super stable elite player this year which surprises me a bit given the twilight of one-handed backhand players. It’s quite possible he’ll be the only man, who keeps this classical style in the Top 20 at the season’s end. After the Monte Carlo final, semifinals in Madrid & Rome, Musetti reached another big clay-court semifinal, and for two hours he was playing on equal terms against the much more accomplished opponent. In the 2nd set the Italian came back twice from a break down, but I observed he’d been putting much more effort into his game. Alcaraz [2] captured the tie-break convincingly (7/3 leading 6:1*) with explosive forehands, and began to dictate the pace in the 3rd set forcing Musetti to run from corner to corner. The crowd could assume that Musetti would save the energy not trying to chase everything & slowing down his serves, but between sets 3 and 4 he took a medical time-out – it was revealed he’d been suffering pain in his left thigh. After playing just ten points in the 4th set, he decided it wouldn’t make sense to continue. Ultimately a very similar scenario to their Monte Carlo final earlier in 2025, but this time the first two sets were more balanced.

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

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