Buoyed by a raucous home crowd, Musetti mounted a stunning comeback from 3-5 down in the deciding set to move to 1\u20131 in the Jimmy Connors<\/a> Group and keep his qualification hopes firmly intact. The 23-year-old sealed victory on his second match point when he blasted a forehand winner pass on the run before he celebrated with his team courtside.<\/p>\n “I was really struggling physically because Alex raised the level and intensity and I was really struggling to find the solution,” Musetti said. “But at the end with a big heart and big passion for this game, I don’t know from where, I started to feel better and play better and the support of the crowd is amazing. I have to thank them all.”<\/p>\n The 23-year-old was transformed from the player who had fallen to Taylor Fritz<\/a> just 30 hours earlier. He buzzed around the baseline with renewed intent, hammering through De Minaur\u2019s defences with weighty ball-striking and punctuating key moments with fist pumps to whip up the home support.<\/p>\n After fading in the second set, Musetti rediscovered his spark when it mattered most. He recovered from losing a breathtaking 31-shot rally at 4\u20133, 30\/30, one that featured a forehand tweener and left both players flat on the court, before mounting a dramatic late charge. When De Minaur served for the match, Musetti struck back to break, then rode a wave of momentum and noise to seal one of the biggest wins of his season after two hours and 47 minutes.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Musetti will face the No. 1 player in the PIF ATP Rankings Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> in his third match on Thursday. The Spaniard, aiming to win the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> for the first time, is 2-0 this week, having beaten De Minaur and Fritz. All four players can still qualify for the semi-finals.<\/p>\n “I am a warrior,” Musetti added. “I have improved a lot on the mental side and I am pushing myself to the limit because I am playing every match against the top players. The next one coming is against Carlos. I know how difficult it is, especially in these conditions. I will try to enjoy and fight like I did today.”<\/p>\n Musetti has now won his past three Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings against De Minaur, having also triumphed at ATP Masters 1000 events on clay in Monte-Carlo and Madrid this year. While those matches helped propel Musetti to a final in Monte-Carlo and the semi-finals in Madrid, Tuesday\u2019s victory marked his first win over a Top 10 opponent on hard courts in 2025.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Competing in Turin for the first time, Musetti qualified on the back of a career-best campaign. He reached finals in Monte-Carlo, Chengdu and most recently, Athens last week, compiling a 45\u201321 record on the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. Before 2025, the Italian had never recorded more than 40 tour-level wins in a single year, a milestone he has now left well behind.<\/p>\n De Minaur\u2019s best result this season came at the ATP 500 event in Washington, where he won the trophy. The 26-year-old, who also reached the final in Rotterdam, is 0-2 this week. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Musetti battles back from the brink to stay alive in Turin, defeats De Minaur in thriller…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-277420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762908009_373_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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