ROLEX MONTE-CARLO MASTERS

April 11, 2025

Lorenzo Musetti

Press Conference

L. MUSETTI/S. Tsitsipas

1-6, 6-3, 6-4

THE MODERATOR: Questions in English.

Q. Congratulations. Two questions in one. First of all, does it add extra flavor to beat the defending champion here in Monaco? Does it add extra flavor to your victory? Secondly, would you say you're the favorite of your semifinal against Alex, even if he has won easily in quarterfinals, since you're playing on clay which is your favorite surface?

LORENZO MUSETTI: It puts a special, let's say, flavor not just because he's the defending champion here, but because I never, before today, I never won against him. The score was 5-0 for him. So was probably one of the toughest challenge that I face in my career so far. So definitely a nice win, one of the best of my career.

Regards the match of tomorrow, I think there is no favorite, honestly. Tomorrow we're gonna see who is the favorite one on the court, and when we will shake hands, there's gonna be a winner. And that's it.

Q. Congratulations. We spoke to Stefanos earlier on, and he said that his serve let him down and this gave you an opportunity to become much more aggressive and come back into the match. How did you see the flow of the match? And can this be considered as a good assessment of what happened?

LORENZO MUSETTI: Yeah, in part, yes, because I think I saw Stefanos that was a little bit struggling physically, you know, to keep up with the intensity and with the energy that he showed in the first set.

But I think also myself, I put myself in a position where he was not playing where he wanted to play, you know. Probably this gave him a little bit of frustration that he was not hitting anymore so many forehands, so many, let's say, first serves and forehand winners.

So definitely I think I made great adjustments to make the match turn around.