French Open 2025 Semi -finals: Musetti V Alcaraz, Sinner V Djokovic – Live | French Open 2025
Key events
Musetti 1-0 Alcaraz (* designates the server) A ruddy thread gives Alcaraz 0-15, then a long setback restores parity and a good point for each player brings us to 30; Already Musetti is under pressure. And when Alcaraz Wallops a forehand from the corner of the reverse to the corner of the Italian’s backhand – exactly the type of shooting that we have spoken earlier – he cannot control his response and must now face a break. Alcaraz quickly handles the rally to open a way of exceeding the whole line … Only to hit the net, a lips for Musetti. And from there, he closes a very necessary socket.
Musetti serve, Ready … Play.
And what reception Alcaraz obtains. He looks ready to have fun; The roof is closed, for no obvious reason.
Here are our players …
Musetti is one of the rare best players with a set with one hand, and for the reason – it is disadvantageous. Even Roger Federer, his idol, had problems with his family, and I expected Alcaraz to attack with the pace whenever possible, so watch the forehand on the line.
Another potential problem for Musetti is that generally, his arsenal of spins is something he has on his opponents, but Alcaraz is capable of transmitting a serious high, and the resulting rebound, even on clay will be a problem.
Jim Courier is Bastian Schweinsteiger’s brooch.
So how does Musetti gain? This is the question that I ask Coach Calv, our resident expert, and his answer – “I hope he has one of his wild days” – reminds me when the cricket team in England planned to bring Jacques Kallis out and the best they could find was “the flight of candidates early in his sleeves”. So I push him, and that’s what comes back: “He also has turns of concentration and his service at the level of the elites is not the best. Analysts do this thing for each plan and its service is something like 14th in the top 20. You have to have a good day. ”
Musetti experienced an impressive tournament. In the first round, he rejected the upper online online opponents, then in three, four and five, he came from behind to see Marino Navone, a specialist in the clay court before shipping Holger Rune and Francis Tiafoe, all in four sets. Is he a much bigger man than him, but big enough to hit Alcaraz? We will see.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to Roland-Garros 2025-13th day!
MANAILLING then! Yesterday, we lived the end of an era. IGA Swiatek could well come back to win more French and Grand Colem openings, but after her defeat – and her way – she is, now and forever, fully viguible. The pack arrives.
Today, however, we could well live the end of an Aeon. Novak Djokovic is undoubtedly the biggest male tennis of all time, satisfying both the digital test and the eye test. He is not the most beautiful, charismatic or creative, and he also does not have the best hands or feel. But if you needed someone to play for your McCoys life or pepper, you would have no choice but to choose it.
However, he has not won major since September 2023 and at that time, Jannik Sinner, his opponent this evening, and Carlos Alcaraz, playing this afternoon, finished their coup, sharing the following five titles between them. The sinner, winner of 19 Grand Slam games in a row, penetrated by the draw without dropping a set; Alcaraz improved during the rounds and is the defending champion.
It is true that Djokovic has produced an astonishing performance even by its astonishing standards to eliminate it in the last eight of the Australian Open, but the pressure of the hamstrings which was forced to meant that he could not finish his semi-final. And, although it is currently in good shape, we can no longer be certain that the ultimate bionic man has in him another performance of quality and intensity that devastated Alexander Zverev on Wednesday. And let’s not be mistaken, he will need it.
But first, Alcaraz faces Lorenzo Musetti, the young Italian who also made the last four of Wimbledon from last year. The pair met twice on Clay recently, Alcaraz won three sets in the Monte Carlo final and in two tight sets in the open Italian semi-final. That is to say that Musetti is a completely very fine and very elegant player, full of confidence and zest … who has not yet shown us that he has the fire power necessary to beat the best on special occasions.
So, while we are waiting for a potentially era day to take place, it is likely that the new company is asserting itself once again, the sinner and Alcaraz too good, too young and too bad to be refused. But if history has taught us something, it is that with Djokovic and with tennis, the impossible is possible. On the way!
Play: 2:30 p.m. premises. 1:30 p.m. BST.
