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Alcaraz in the Roland Garros final

12:35am, 27 June 2025More Sports

Musetti suffered from thigh muscle pain from the end of the three, before deciding to stop the game at the beginning of the four set. Italian tennis player lost 6-4, 6-7 (3), 0-6, 0-2 missed the first opportunity to the Grand Slam final.

Alcaraz became the fifth young player in history with 5 Major finals. In the last four times, he won with twice at Wimbledon, once the US expanded and the title of Roland Garros last year. Among those who are still playing, only Novak Djokovic (37) and Daniil Medvedev (6) play more Grand Slams than Alcaraz. He tried to squeeze the opponent with high and deep stuffing. But with good fighting force, Musetti countered it by backing back deep behind Baseline and sprung out dangerous points. In the first two sets, the Italian player caused Alcaraz to fail with this plan and had to switch to attack on the hand and drop. However, the bad feeling makes Alcaraz repeatedly put the error, or hit itself out. He held the serve to finish the set while leading 6-5, but faced two break-point after the powerful attacks of Musetti from the end of the yard. Alcaraz only saved one point and had to enter the tie-break series. In this series, Musetti lost the beat and repeatedly broken, helping Alcaraz win fast 7-2.

Musetti seemed to have a problem at the beginning of the set, when the serve and his shots were no longer the damage as the beginning of the match. In many situations, the 23 -year -old tennis player tried to bring the ball to the yard, facilitating Alcaraz to comfortably align the angle and finish Winner. This set has only six games but Alcaraz has 9 winner, more than 8 points of the set. Meanwhile, Musetti made seven errors of defeating and only serve one of the pitch at a very low rate of 44%. The sixth seed saves two in the year of break-point but also cannot avoid losing set.

Musetti calls for medical care when being led to a set of three. The situation later did not improve forcing him to give up at the score of 0-2 of Set four. The second match in a row to win and create a 6-0 set. "The first two sets are very difficult for me", he admitted after the match. "I tried to push Musetti to the limit, trying to let him not control the situations and this is the key".

Alcaraz leads 6-1 against Musetti for confrontation, including two other wins this year in Monte Carlo and Rome. He currently has a 33-2 winning record on the ground from May 2024, including 18 wins in Paris.

Alcaraz said he was excited about meeting Djokovic or Sinner in the final. "I will not miss their match ", the owner of 19 titles ATP said. "I want to enjoy a peak match like all of you. Of course, I will also learn tactics from them ".

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