Sinner and Musetti, the unusual blue pair has Italian fans daydreaming: it doesn’t seem real, it’s going crazy.
It was not tinged blue, the sky over Church Road. Lorenzo Musetti could not contain the fury of Novak Djokovic and Jasmine Paolini, despite an exemplary match, succumbed after three tight sets to the ruthless precision of Barbora Krejčíková. Two facts that take nothing away, however, from the brilliant feat of the homegrown battalion in London.
Great was the Tuscan tennis player and majestic was the magnificent Lorenzo, who on the “ashes” of the semifinal at Wimbledon will be able to build the second act of his career. Already dreaming big, the prodigious Carrara player. He hopes to do well in upcoming tournaments as well as he did at the All England Club, but also to be able to soon land in the top ten and, why not, make his debut at the Finals in Turin. Because after two weeks like this it is also safe to assume that the best is yet to come.
But there is one more goal still that Musetti, rightly, intends to pursue now that he is number 16 in the world and has broken the taboo of final acts in a Grand Slam tournament. On the horizon is the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, and it goes without saying that even there he will do everything he can to do justice to his stellar tennis and the talent he possesses.
Paris Olympics, Musetti believes in it
It does not surprise us at all, this being the case, that fans are already dreaming along with him at the thought of seeing Musetti together with the blue king, namely Jannik Sinner. They will play doubles, and it is thrilling to think that the two best Italian tennis players will defend the tricolor beyond the Alps.
“I think with Jannik, though, there will be tennis understanding right away,” said the Carrara native on the matter, “It won’t be a doubles of very big patterns, there won’t be as many things to try from this point. But we are two talented guys and maybe we will be able to find a chemistry that will complement the lack of one or the other.”
“I think we can be a good doubles pair and be able to do well,” he added further, “About the Olympics for me it is a satisfaction to represent Italy. It always has been. In Tokyo I didn’t feel the Olympic atmosphere because it was during the Covid and I was without my team. Playing them in Paris, at Roland Garros, on the court where I perhaps expressed my best tennis, is something that gives me hope. I will play Umag first anyway. Let’s see when I get to Paris because it depends on what I do there. “