Lorenzo Musetti\u2019s run to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open has seen him clinch a significant breakthrough in the ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n
The Italian star is yet to drop a set during his campaign at the clay-court Masters 1000 event, having claimed three decisive wins.<\/p>\n
Musetti<\/a> booked his place in the last eight in the Spanish capital with a dominant 6-4, 6-2 victory against world No 7 Alex de Minaur.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old did not face a single break point in the\u00a0fourth round contest against the Australian.<\/p>\n In the third round, Musetti prevailed 7-5, 7-6(3) against Stefanos Tsitsipas after trailing 1-4, 15-40 in the opening set.\u00a0In his opening match, he saw off Tomas Martin Etcheverry 7-6(3), 6-2.<\/p>\n Musetti, who started the tournament as the world No 11, has increased his points tally by 150 points \u2014 from 3,200 to 3,350.<\/p>\n This has lifted Musetti up to ninth in the Live ATP Rankings, and he is guaranteed to be a top 10 player for the first time when the rankings update next week.<\/p>\n The only players who could overtake Musetti are Daniil Medvedev and Casper Ruud, who face each other in the last eight in Madrid.<\/p>\n The Italian\u2019s Madrid exploits come after his outstanding run to his maiden Masters final in Monte Carlo, where he fell to Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n Following his quarter-final win against de Minaur,\u00a0Musetti asserted that he has the mentality of a top 10 player.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not surprised [to be in the quarter-finals], I\u2019m surprised with myself,\u201d Musetti said in his on-court interview.<\/p>\n The 6 Italian men to reach top 10 in ATP Rankings as Musetti joins Sinner and Berrettini<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Meet the lucky loser enjoying an incredible run of fortune at the Madrid Open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cAfter Monte Carlo, something changed in myself, a positive click forward. That\u2019s something I have been waiting for for a long time.<\/p>\n \u201cI feel more secure on what I have to do on the court. Of course I can lose, but I have the attitude and mentality of a top 10 right now, so I\u2019m really happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n The 23-year-old has a great opportunity to continue his ascent as he will face 78th-ranked Gabriel Diallo in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n Victory against the 23-year-old Canadian would see Musetti leapfrog Holger Rune into the world No 8 spot in the Live ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n If Musetti were to win the title in Madrid, his points tally would surge to 4,150 \u2014 and he could climb as high as fifth position.<\/p>\n READ NEXT:\u00a0Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev slammed for \u2018disastrous\u2019 form during Jannik Sinner\u2019s absence<\/a> The post Lorenzo Musetti achieves major rankings breakthrough with Madrid Open run<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorenzo Musetti\u2019s run to the quarter-finals of the 2025 Madrid Open has seen him clinch a significant breakthrough in the ATP Rankings. The Italian star is yet to drop a set during his campaign at the clay-court Masters 1000 event, having claimed three decisive wins. Musetti booked his place in the last eight in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ATP Tour News<\/h2>\n
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