Cerundolo 5-1: the Argentine must be sent towards victory. He is always the one who takes the initiative and takes the lead. Argentina towards 1-0.
Cerundolo 4-1: The Argentine is pumped up, exudes confidence and is always on the ball. On the other side of the net, a bewildered Musetti struggled to get up. Game decided with the advantages after 5 break points.
Cerundolo 3-1: Musetti pinned on the left side of the field, where he gives in to the Argentine’s passes.
Musetti 2-1: the Argentine concedes something, giving up the advantages. It is a game that brings hope to the blue team, in search of new solutions to raise the bar.
Cerundolo 2-0: extends the number 30 ATP further. Few errors and full control of the game. On the other hand, Musetti makes a lot of mistakes and risks too much on the most important points: 40-30.
Cerundolo 1-0: the Argentine plays a great game. Musetti in the ball.
Let’s start again. Musetti at service.
Match 1: Musetti-Cerundolo – 1 set
Cerundolo 6-4: Musetti will have to work on his mental stability, as he emerges defeated from this first set. Argentina ahead by one set.
Cerundolo 5-4: Lorenzo Musetti’s match gets complicated again, left at 15 by the Argentine.
Musetti 4-4: it was essential to win this game for the blue, who equalizes the score leaving Cerundolo at 30: thanks to the Argentine’s mistake in the final exchange.
Cerundolo 4-3: the Argentine dampens a very difficult ball and scores a point worthy of applause. Then he messes up while Musetti builds the game point after point until 40 all, when however he commits a double fault, giving up this game too.
Cerundolo 3-3: Lots of mistakes on both sides of the pitch. The blue recovers the initial disadvantage and takes the game to the advantage, but then he makes a mistake once again and gives the sixth game of the match to the Argentine.
Musetti 3-2: second consecutive game decided by advantages. The Argentine is in the right gear, but the Italian wins and gets back ahead.
Cerundolo 2-2: the Argentine raises the level of service, who evens the score with an ace to the advantages.
Cerundolo 2-1: the blue drops in this third game, with a sequence of errors that allows Cerundolo to recover the initial 15. The Argentine wins two break points with a smash that finalizes a long exchange. Musetti cancels the first, but then makes a mistake and has to give up the game.
Musetti 2-0: number 17 ATP makes a loud statement as he earns two break points. An uncertainty on the forehand costs him the first, but then he also scores the second game thanks to the Argentine’s error.
Musetti 1-0: the blue starts well, who after the double fault on the first 15 takes advantage of Cerundolo’s mistakes and wins the first game of the match.
Let’s begin! Musetti at service.
Draw made. Vince Cerundolo, he will be the one to answer.
Teams on the field for the performance of the national anthems: the start of Italy-Argentina is almost here!
Welcome to the live broadcast of the match between Italy and Argentina, valid for the Davis Cup quarter-finals. After having qualified in Bologna, the team led by Filippo Volandri returns to the field with the task of defending the title won last edition, when Jannik Sinner and his companions brought the salad bowl back to Italy after 47 years. A mission entrusted not only to the number 1 in the world, to Lorenzo Musetti, Matteo Berrettini and tandem Simone Bolelli e Andrea Vavassori. Waiting for them on the other side of the net, Sebastian Baez, Francisco Cerundolo, Tomas Etcheverry and the couple formed by Maximo Gonzalez e Andres Molteni. Kicking things off in match 1 were Musetti and Cerundolo, numbers 17 and 30 respectively in the international rankings. The Martin Carpena spotlight turns back on the Italian national team after the triumph in the Billie Jean King Cup of the girls from Tathiana Garbin, who thanks to the success against Slovakia have added their fifth world title to their showcase – signatories of the victory, Lucia Bronzetti e Jasmine Paolini for the final 2-0 – .
Italy-Argentina: the lineups
These are the lineups of Volandri’s team: we start with the challenge between Lorenzo Musetti and Francisco Cerundolo. To Jannik Sinner the match 2 against Sebastian Baez.
5.10pm: Musetti-Cerundolo
Next up: Sinner-Baez
Following: Bolelli/Vavassori-Gonzalez/Molteni
The path to the final: OUT two big names
The ouster of Spain Of Rafa Nadal (2-1 against the Netherlands), effectively eliminated the only opponent who seemed to be able to create problems for us in a possible final and the victory of the Germania without Zverev against the Canadians, he also put the only nation that has been able to beat Italy twice in recent years, in the 2022 semi-final and in the first match of the round of 16 the following year, at the door.
But we have to overcome the Magician’s Argentina Coria and then deal with the United States of the future CEO Taylor Fritz and number 2 Frances Tiafoe (against whom Berrettini is 2-1 and Musetti 2-3) in a semi-final which has all the appearance of being worth, technically, more than any final could, at this point, take shape.
