Musetti leaves Fritz without title in Brussels

Lorenzo Musetti achieved a title four years later by winning this Sunday in the final of the Lyon tournament to the American Taylor Fritzsecond seed, 6-3 and 6-4.

The transalpine, who became the fifth player in the world and is now the twenty-sixth, put an end to his bad streak of seven consecutive defeats in circuit tournament finals.

The 24-year-old Italian played in his second final, after the one in Hong Kong that he lost to Alexander Bublik, in a season in which he has been hampered by injuries.

Quarterfinalist at the Australian Open and Cicinnatti, Masters 1,000 category, He won for the fifth time in eight games against the American.

The one in Lyon, which he won in one hour and 24 minutes, is the third title of his career after those he achieved in Naples and Hamburg in 2022.

From there he could not find a way to increase his record. He lost the finals in Queens, Umag and Chengdu in 2024 and those in Athens, Chengdu and the Monte Carlo Masters 1,000 in 2025, in addition to Hong Kong in 2026.