Match report
Musetti beats O’Connell to succeed in quarterfinals in Chengdu
Bublik and Mannarino are additionally making progress
September 21, 2024
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(File photograph) Musetti will face fifth-seeded Mannarino within the quarterfinals.
By Krishna Gowda
Lorenzo Musetti defeated Christopher O’Connell 6-7(5), 6-4, 7-6(4) on Saturday to succeed in the quarter-finals of the Chengdu Open.
The highest favourite rallied from a 5-3 deficit within the deciding set to file a private finest thirty fifth win of the season, advancing to his seventh quarterfinal of the 12 months. The 22-year-old Musetti hit 33 winners, based on Infosys ATP Stats, to shut out the match in two hours and 37 minutes.
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“That was a troublesome match, he [O’Connell] “I served fairly sharp and really exact and I didn’t discover many break factors,” Musetti mentioned after the match. “However ultimately I stayed targeted, performed the best ways and managed to play properly the entire match.”
The Italian will face fifth-seeded Adrian Mannarino within the quarter-finals after the Frenchman survived a scare to beat dwelling hope Yi Zhou 7-6(3), 2-6, 6-4.
Mannarino got here again from 1-3, 0/40 down within the deciding set to beat the 19-year-old wildcard and advance to his second quarterfinal of the season (Dallas). The No. 46 within the PIF ATP Rankings saved eight of the 12 break level possibilities in opposition to him.
By securing victory in two hours and 45 minutes, the 36-year-old grew to become the oldest quarter-finalist within the event’s historical past.
“It was actually scorching situations right here, I felt actually drained through the race and it wasn’t simple as a result of I may see that he [Zhou] was tremendous contemporary,” Mannarino mentioned in his post-match interview.
“However on the finish he performed too properly, so I believed, ‘Okay, attempt to get yet one more ball within the area’ and I used to be fortunate that he made a number of errors on the finish.”
The Frenchman defeated Musetti of their solely earlier Lexus ATP Head2Head assembly (Indian Wells 2023).
Second-seeded Alexander Bublik defeated Federico Agustin Gomez 6-4, 6-4 to succeed in the final eight.
The four-time ATP Tour champion hit 25 winners en path to victory within the qualifying match. The 27-year-old Bublik additionally saved 4 of the 5 break factors in opposition to him to resolve the match in 97 minutes.
Bublik will face both #NextGenATP star Shang Juncheng or eighth-seeded Roman Safiullin within the subsequent spherical.