The blue player Lorenzo Musetti beat the American Sebastian Korda in three sets and qualified for the quarter-finals of the Lyon tournament.
The 19-year-old from Carrara, no.88 in the ranking, overcame the 20-year-old American rival, no.
65 of the world rankings.
The Lyon tournament, which takes place on clay courts, is a 250 which includes great names in world tennis, among the favorites the Austrian Dominic Thiem n.
4 of the world, the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (n.5) and then the Argentine Diego Schwartzman, n.10, and the Belgian David Goffin, n.13.
Sinner ahead, beaten in comeback Karatsev
- Success in comeback for Jannik Sinner who in Lyon beat the Russian Karatsev 0-6 6-3 6-4 in two hours and 33 minutes plus the interruption due to rain: the blue will now play the second round against Arthur Rinderknech. The French prevailed on the Swedish Mikael Ymer 6-3 6-7 6-2.
