On Day 10 of Wimbledon, after many rainy days, the roofs were open, and the sun was shining, the sky a deep blue with white floating clouds.
On Court No. 1, Lorenzo Musetti, the talented 22-year old Italian, reached his first Grand Slam semifinal, defeating 26-year-old top American Taylor Fritz in five sets, 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1, in three hours and 27 minutes.
The stylish Italian, with his longish brown hair peeking out under his backwards white ball cap and his tattoo of his heart activity with a tennis racquet in the middle as “tennis is in his heartbeat,” got off to a slow start, getting down quickly 4-1 in the first set.
But he began to find his game, with all its creative variety: deft drop shots, high topspin lobs, slicing and coming over his beautiful one-handed backhand, massive topspin forehands.
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Fritz, though, stayed close, with his awe-inspiring serve and forehand,…
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