Lorenzo Musetti and a style in extinction
- The new Top 10 player confirms his level with a style and technique that conquers tennis purists with a one-handed backhand.
Mexico City, May 19, 2025.- The media attention around Italian tennis has focused in recent years on Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini, but from Tuscany, in the north of the country, a third talent has emerged to complete a historic triplet for the white sport of the Mediterranean nation.
This May 2025, Lorenzo Musetti broke into the Top 10 as the sixth Italian to do so since 1973. The fruit of what was the best year of his career in 2024, he won Olympic bronze and reached the semifinals of Wimbledon, as well as becoming a two-time Davis Cup champion with Italy after a 47-year drought.
At 23 years old and with an endangered one-handed backhand, “Lolo” or “Muse”, as he is affectionately known, seeks to remind the world that tennis can still be played with a fine, elegant style and remain competitive. Not for nothing did he grow up with Roger Federer as his great idol and inspiration.
In 2022 was when he added the two ATP titles that he just boasts in his record, in 2024 he made two finals and this 2025 after leaving out his compatriot Berrettini and the defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas, he reached his first final in the Masters 1000 in Monte Carlo.
The clay season confirms the skills he has for this type of court, his favorite. Semifinals in Madrid, as well as at home, the Rome Masters 1000, where destiny placed him once again against a beast like Carlos Alcaraz, who stopped him from winning his maximum title in Monte Carlo weeks before.
Musetti arrives as a big favorite to the ninth edition of the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo in Los Cabos. With his current level, his charisma, his taste for traveling and getting to know new destinations on the tour and his obsession with music and good food, there is no doubt that just like the fans visiting the ATP 250 in Los Cabos, Musetti will enjoy discovering all the experiences that the Mexican tournament has to offer.
Technical Details
Name: Lorenzo Musetti
Age: 23 years old
Date and place of birth: March 3, 2002 in Carrara, Italy
Current ATP Ranking: 9th (as of May 19, 2025)
Best ATP ranking: 15th
Coach: Simone Tartarine
ATP titles: 2 (Naples, Hamburg 2022)