Carlos Alcaraz beat Italy's Lorenzo
Musetti 6-3 7-6 on Friday to reach the final of the Italian Open
men's singles and end the home fans' hopes of an all-Italian
climax to the Rome tournament.
In the final the Spaniard will face the winner of the other semi
between Italy's world number Jannik Sinner and American Tommy
Paul.
Musetti made a nervous start in windy conditions, losing the
first game on serve.
He ended up being broken three times in the first set, although
he also took one service game off Alcaraz.
After an exchange of breaks at the start of the second set, the
Italian took Alcaraz's serve again and held the advantage for
much of the set.
But he surrendered serve when 4-3 up and, having had a warning
for destroying his racket in the first set, he had a penalty
point imposed on him when he let his frustration show.
Musetti cancelled out a match point on his serve in the last
game of the second set, but Alcaraz had too much for him in the
decisive tie-break.
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