The ABN Tennis Tour in Rotterdam broke a big upset, and the Italian teenager Musetti, who was not yet 20 years old, won the second major victory of his career, and after three sets, Musetti defeated the world's 11th-ranked Polish star Hulkac 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 to advance to the third round.
The match was the third meeting between the two, in the first two conversations, both sides won one victory each, although Musetti is currently only 63rd in the world rankings, but his desire to win is no less than the other. Hulkach, as a Masters champion, was also a high-ranked player who swept Federer 3-0 in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon last year, and this time he did not have much to do to face the youngster who rushed and punched, although his winning points were as high as 37, 15 more than Musetti, but in the end he failed to receive the serve, resulting in a rout.
After the game, Musetti said with relief: "I can judge what Hulkach is going to do by serving, especially in the second and third sets, it is difficult to break his serve because we all know each other better, this is our third game." The key to winning the game was that I started well, the return was aggressive, and I tried my best to break his serve when he wasn't doing well. ”
From Hulkac's loss to the unknown generation, it can be seen that the stability of this group of mesozoic players is still much worse than the big three, And Nadal and Djokovic can not consider such quasi-first-line players represented by Hulkach, and should focus on Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Zverev, Andretini, and the psychological pressure is relatively small.