Lorenzo Musetti lost to Yi Zhou in Shanghai on Friday, 7-6(7), 3-6, 7-6(1). Yi Zhou was the tournament’s local wildcard.
The young Italian had not played since the US Open. He said he never managed to shake off the tension from the start of the match. He also said: “Nothing is easy in this sport.” It’s what we used to say back home while stacking chairs after a parish fair.
In Couvin, when we had a guest, we gave him the best chair and the biggest slice of rice tart. He went home happy, and he won nothing. Here, they invite a boy and he takes somebody else’s whole tournament. My aunt only invited people to her whist table who played worse than she did. She insisted on it.
Musetti will play Vienna, Paris and Stockholm. His schedule doesn’t change. I hope that in Vienna they at least leave him the good chair.
Whoever sends out the invitations should ask my aunt for advice.
It’s true, we checked: Tennis Actu.
