Carlos Alcaraz beat Lorenzo Musetti to win the Monte-Carlo Masters for the primary time, selecting up his first ATP Masters 1000 title in 13 months.
Alcaraz, the reigning Wimbledon and French Open champion, was enjoying in his first ultimate at this degree since profitable Indian Wells in March 2024.
He wanted to battle again after dropping the opening set, despite the fact that he broke the Italian within the first recreation. Musetti pressed him within the subsequent recreation and finally broke again himself.
He then raced forward to win 4 consecutive video games and in the end take the primary set 6-3.
However Alcaraz stormed again, bellowing with satisfaction after breaking Musetti within the Italian’s first service recreation of the second set.
The Spaniard maintained his ruthless streak to go 4-0 up within the second and claimed that set 6-1.
Alcaraz snatched a break within the first recreation of the third set and pressed residence his benefit.
Musetti was struggling bodily in that third set and the physio got here out to work on him after he misplaced the primary three video games.
He slumped to defeat, with Alcaraz simply changing the primary of two championship factors to win in three units, 3-6 6-1 6-0.
“It’s not the way that I would have wanted to win a match,” Alcaraz stated afterwards. “I’m just really happy to have won.
“It has been a extremely troublesome week with quite a lot of troublesome conditions,” he added. “Coming right here and seeing the laborious work repay is de facto, very nice.”
His solely different title this 12 months got here on the Rotterdam Open in February however this sixth Masters triumph will likely be a great addition for the Spaniard forward of the upcoming majors.
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