The Spanish Carlos Alcaraz (3rd ATP) will play your first final of the Masters 1000 from Rome After defeating Italian Lorenzo Musetti (9th), 6-3 and 7-6 (7/4) on Friday.
Alcaraz, winner of the 1000 Masters of Montecarlo, finalist in Barcelona and absent in Madrid for injury, will face the winner of the duel between the world number 1 Jannik Sinner and American Tommy Paul (12th).
The 22-year-old Spanish can add the 19th title of his career, the third this year after Róterdam and Montecarlo, two weeks from the 2025 edition of Roland Garros (May 25-June 8).
‘Carlitos’, winner at Roland Garros last year, is on the way to becoming the best active player in whipped land after the withdrawal of the legend Rafael Nadal.
In the last year, he has won 26 games on his favorite surface, with only two losses.
Winner of the defending champion and world number 2 Alexander Zverev in the previous round, 23 -year -old Musetti, needed more than one set to let go of his third semifinal in as many 1000 Masters celebrated in beaten land in 2025.
In the second set, marked by the wind bursts, he led 3-1 and then 4-2, before allowing Alcaraz to trace. He collapsed emotionally and multiplied frustration gestures that cost him a penalty point.
Italian tennis is in the hands of Sinner to end up in the long drought in ‘its’ its international ones: you have to go back to 1978 to find a finalist from the country already 1976 a winner.
On Thursday 23 years old, he crushed 6-0, 6-1 with a performance close to perfection to the Norwegian Casper Ruud, world number 7 and recent winner of Madrid 1000 Masters.
The triple Grand Slam champion was out of the circuit for three months, between February and May, as part of an agreement reached with the World Anti -Doping Agency after two positive anti -doping controls by an anabolic attributed to accidental pollution.
