Fritz carries strong pedigree at the season finale, having reached the championship match last year and the semi-finals on debut in 2022. The 28-year-old arrived in northern Italy a week ago, in stark contrast to Musetti, who only touched down in Turin on Sunday after falling to Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the Athens final on Saturday night.<\/p>\n With a full week of preparation in the bag, Fritz looked more comfortable in the indoor conditions. The sixth seed stepped inside the baseline to take the ball early, redirecting pace and pushing Musetti onto the back foot. Though the Italian produced flashes of brilliance while scrambling, he spent most of the match retreating, unable to wrest control from Fritz\u2019s penetrating, flat groundstrokes.<\/p>\n \u201cI am really happy. I thought I did a lot of things really well,\u201d Fritz said. \u201cI did a great job early on in the match to serve my way out of trouble and save some break points. The whole second set I played well and had a lot of chances to break that I didn\u2019t get. I am really happy I was able to serve it out there and it didn\u2019t come back to ruin it.\u201d<\/p>\n Fritz finished with a performance rating of 9.20 against Musetti, well above his 8.28 Tour average in 2025. After storming through the first set, the American gained the crucial break of the second set at 1-1 when Musetti hit two consecutive doubles from 40\/30 before he pushed a backhand wide when defending on break point. Fritz then held his nerve when serving out, rallying from 0\/30 at 5-4 to triumph after one hour and 43 minutes.<\/p>\n \u201cEvery time I come here, I like the conditions and it is very easy to get motivated,\u201d Fritz said when asked about his impressive Turin record. \u201cYou can lock in, it is the last tournament of the year and it is the ATP Finals, it is a big deal.\u201d<\/p>\n Fritz is now 1-0 in the Jimmy Connors<\/a> group and will also meet Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Alex de Minaur<\/a> in round-robin play in Turin. Alcaraz, chasing his first Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> crown, defeated De Minaur on Sunday to kick-start his final push to earn ATP Year-End No. 1 presented by PIF honours.<\/p>\n Fritz owns a 52-21 record on the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, highlighted by titles in Eastbourne and Stuttgart. The World No. 6 is locked at 3-3 in his Lexus ATP Head2Head series against Musetti, with this the pair\u2019s first meeting in 2025.<\/p>\n Musetti has enjoyed the best season of his career to qualify for the year-end event for the first time, advancing to tour-level finals in Monte-Carlo, Chengdu and Athens. The 23-year-old is joined by countryman and World No. 2 Jannik Sinner<\/a> in Turin. The defending champion Sinner begins his campaign against Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Fritz pours cold water on Musetti’s Nitto ATP Finals debut American earns 6-3, 6-4 win November…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-285019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762853531_287_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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