From Umag to Paris, Musetti upsets Zverev to reach Olympics SFs

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/lorenzo-musetti/m0ej/overview'Lorenzo Musetti/a continued his resurgent run on Thursday when he upset World No. 4 and defending Olympic gold medalist a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/alexander-zverev/z355/overview'Alexander Zverev/a 7-5, 7-5 to reach the semi-finals at the a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/scores/archive/paris/96/2024/results'Paris Olympics/a, guaranteeing him the chance to play for a medal./p

pMusetti was competing in the final at the ATP 250 clay-court event in Umag when the singles event began on Saturday in Paris. After falling in the title match, the 22-year-old made the journey from Croatia to France, where he has been rampant on the Parisian clay./p

pMusetti moved past a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/gael-monfils/mc65/overview'Gael Monfils/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mariano-navone/n0bs/overview'Mariano Navone/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taylor-fritz/fb98/overview'Taylor Fritz/a in his first three matches before he earned his first Top 5 win of the season against Germany’s Zverev. The No. 16 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, who also reached his first major semi-final at a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/tournaments/wimbledon/540/overview'Wimbledon/a three weeks ago, fired 20 winners against Zverev to become the first Italian player to reach the singles semi-finals since tennis returned to the Olympics in Seoul in 1988./p

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pWith his two-hour, four-minute win, Musetti levelled his Lexus ATP Head2Head series with Zverev at 1-1. He will face Serbian a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/novak-djokovic/d643/overview'Novak Djokovic/a or Greek a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/stefanos-tsitsipas/te51/overview'Stefanos Tsitsipas/a in the semi-finals. If he wins, he will enter the gold medal match, while defeat would offer him the chance to fight for bronze./p

pMusetti holds a 19-4 record since the start of the grass season, having reached the semis in Stuttgart and the final at The Queen's Club in London in June./p

pZverev clinched the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics and was aiming to become the 11th player to reach multiple singles Olympic semi-finals. The German is 47-14 on the season./p

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