In early April, Stefanos Tsitsipas encountered Lorenzo Musetti in the quarterfinals of the Monte Carlo Masters 2025. At that time, the Greek player had lost backwards with a score of 6-1, 3-6, 4-6, thereby missing an appointment with the semi-finals.
Less than 3 weeks later, Tsitsipas and Musetti had the opportunity to meet again. This is a match within the 3rd round of Madrid Madrid Open 2025 – a Masters 1000 award on the other ground. Once again, Tsitsipas had to taste bitter fruit before the opponent.
This match, Tsitsipas had a very favorable start. The world's No. 18 player won the break early right in Game 2 and quickly took the lead 4-1. Coming to Game 6, he also has 3 more opportunities to break the game of Musetti, but not take advantage of success.
The missed phases have caused Tsitsipas to pay. As for the end of the set, Musetti plays better. The Italian tennis player won 2 consecutive breaks in games 9 and 11 and then successfully with the 7-5 victory.
Following the excitement, Musetti played impressively in the second half. The 11th rank player did not face any break point, and there are many opportunities to break the game of Tsitsipas but cannot take advantage of it. The two players then had to enter the brain tie-break series, with a 7-3 victory in favor of Musetti.
With this result, Tsitsipas officially stopped in the third round of Madrid Open 2025.
