Carlos Alcaraz against Lorenzo Musetti is the first semifinal of the Internazionali d'Italia tennis tournament, currently taking place at the Foro Italico in Rome. The Italian triumphed yesterday evening against the defending champion Alexander Zverev, defeated 7-6(1) 6-4 at the end of a very high-level quarterfinal.
The German was ahead 6-5 40-0 in the first set, then the great turnaround by Musetti who erased four set points and won the tie-break . In 2 hours and 15 minutes, the Tuscan completed the work against the number 2 seed in the draw (number 3 in the world) and continued his climb, with the aim of bringing a title back to Rome that in the men's for an Italian has been missing since 1976 (Adriano Panatta, at the time).
For Musetti there will be the semifinal against Alcaraz, who beat Jack Draper 6-4 6-4. The appointment is tomorrow, but today in Rome the program is equally full with the other two quarterfinals of the men's singles on the center court. Hubert Hurkacz opens against Tommy Paul, then (not before 7 pm) it will be the long-awaited turn of Jannik Sinner who will challenge Casper Ruud . After the initial victories , the world number 1 is looking for another success that would mean taking two Italians to the semifinals.
In the women's draw, where Aryna Sabalenka was eliminated yesterday (the Chinese Zheng Qinwen won 6-4 6-3), in the afternoon (not before 3 pm) the semi-finals start on the centre court with Jasmine Paolini against the American Peyton Stearns . Following, not before 8:30 pm, the same Zheng against Coco Gauff. Today the first quarter-finals of the men's doubles and the last of the women's doubles are also played (where Errani-Paolini are already in the semi-finals).
