Musetti surpasses Sinner: blue tennis player’s season figures are resounding. Although he lacks that continuity that would be needed
Lorenzo Musetti’s season is definitely the best of his career. Great results achieved this year with the icing on the cake being the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics behind Djokovic and Nadal.
But that’s not all: the Italian also won the first Wimbledon semifinal. In short, 2024 will surely be a year to remember for him. But it remains, nonetheless, a season from the two times. Imagine if he had a little continuity what he could have been up to. And instead there are a couple of negative records, as reported by tennisworlditalia, that show how the player still needs to grow: let’s make it clear, the qualities are there, and plenty of them. But a real turnaround would be needed. That said, there is also another issue to point out: in one specific statistic, Musetti is number one in the world ahead of even Jannik Sinner. And let’s go look at it together.
Musetti surpasses Sinner: after grass he is number one
The sore spot this year is the finals. On five occasions Musetti has gone all the way but never lifted a trophy: it happened at the Cagliari Challenger (winner Navone), the Turin Challenger (Passaro), Queen’s (Tommy Paul), Umag (Cerundolo) and finally Chengdu (Shang). In short, in a nutshell, he feels the tension of the moment is really playing tricks on him.
If this is the high difficult medal to digest, on the other hand there is another thing that cannot in any way go unnoticed: From the grass season onwards, in fact, the 2002 class has won more matches than anyone else on the major circuit: an impressive 26. As you can see in the ranking above, behind him he has put the best in the world: Alexander Zverev is second in this special ranking at 23, and third is world number one Jannik Sinner (22). Improving continuity, that is the goal no doubt for the coming months. And also try to hold the tension when the racket weighs a little more and there is a need to be cool-headed. The qualities for all this are there. Go Musetti!