Lorenzo Musetti is an Italian tennis player who won the third title of his career in Lyon in October 2026, his first since 2022. He reached a career-high No. 5 in January 2026, before a thigh injury forced him out of Roland-Garros. At the 2026 Rolex Paris Masters, he beat Polish Hubert Hurkacz 7-6 (3), 7-6 (10) in the first round to set up a meeting with World No. 1 Alexander Zverev of Germany.

A former junior world No. 1, the right-hander with a one-handed backhand has reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon and Roland-Garros, and won an Olympic bronze medal in Paris in 2024.

How old is Lorenzo Musetti and where is he from?

Lorenzo Musetti was born on March 3, 2002, in Carrara, Italy. According to his ATP profile, he is 6ft 1in tall.

His parents are Francesco, a marble producer, and Sabrina, a secretary, and he names his grandfather as his hero. He started playing tennis at the age of four, with Roger Federer as his greatest inspiration.

Off the court, he has said he would like to be an actor and admires Al Pacino. He appeared on the cover of the Italian edition of Esquire in 2020, and he is on Instagram as lore_musetti.

When did Lorenzo Musetti turn pro, and who is his coach?

Musetti turned professional in 2019, after winning the Australian Open boys’ singles title that year and becoming the junior world No. 1.

His longtime coach is Simone Tartarini, who started working with him when he was seven.

What has Lorenzo Musetti done in 2026?

Musetti started the season by losing the Hong Kong final to Kazakh Alexander Bublik 7-6 (2), 6-3, his seventh consecutive defeat in an ATP final. The run still lifted him to No. 5, making him only the third Italian man in the top 5, after Adriano Panatta and Jannik Sinner.

Despite a hip injury, he had his best Australian Open. He beat Czech Tomas Machac 5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 in 4 hours 28 minutes, then American Taylor Fritz 6-2, 7-5, 6-4 to reach his first quarter-final in Melbourne. Against Djokovic, he led 6-4, 6-3, 1-3 when he had to retire injured.

In May, Norwegian Casper Ruud beat him 6-3, 6-1 in Rome, where Musetti dropped out of the top 10. A rectus femoris injury in his left leg then ruled him out of Roland-Garros.

His summer was difficult. Spaniard Rafael Jodar beat him 1-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the Washington quarter-finals, and Australian wildcard Dane Sweeny, ranked No. 123, knocked him out of the US Open 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2 in the second round.

He had fallen to No. 26 when he arrived in Lyon in October. He beat Frenchman Luca Van Assche 7-6 (5), 6-7 (7), 6-4 in the longest match of his career, then saved four match points to beat top seed Flavio Cobolli 4-6, 6-2, 7-5. In the final, he beat second seed Fritz 6-3, 6-4 without facing a break point.

“It’s a lot of emotion,” Musetti said. “I don’t know how to describe it, but I feel that it’s such a dream that I don’t want to wake up.”

How many titles has Lorenzo Musetti won?

Three. He won his first title in Hamburg in 2022, beating Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz 6-4, 6-7 (6), 6-4 in the final, then his second in Naples in October of the same year.

His third came in Lyon in 2026, in his 10th career final. He was the first Italian to win the tournament, which was held in Marseille from 1993 to 2025.

How many finals has Lorenzo Musetti lost?

Musetti lost seven finals in a row between his Naples title in 2022 and Lyon in 2026. They included Queen’s in 2024, where American Tommy Paul beat him 6-1, 7-6 (8), and his first Masters 1000 final in Monte-Carlo in 2025, which Alcaraz won 3-6, 6-1, 6-0.

In Athens in November 2025, top seed Novak Djokovic beat him 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 after 2 hours 58 minutes. The run ended with the defeat to Bublik in Hong Kong in January 2026.

What are Lorenzo Musetti’s best results at the Grand Slams and the Olympics?

Musetti has reached two Grand Slam semi-finals. At Wimbledon in 2024, he beat Fritz 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in the quarter-finals, before losing to Djokovic 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-4.

At Roland-Garros in 2025, he took the first set of his semi-final against Alcaraz, but retired with a leg injury with the Spaniard leading 4-6, 7-5, 6-0, 2-0.

He also reached the quarter-finals of the 2025 US Open, where Italian Jannik Sinner beat him 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, and of the 2026 Australian Open. With that run in Melbourne, he completed the set of reaching the second week at all four majors.

At the Paris 2024 Olympics, he lost his semi-final to Djokovic 6-4, 6-2, then won the bronze medal by beating Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

Has Lorenzo Musetti played the ATP Finals?

Yes, in 2025. His defeat in the Athens final meant he could not qualify directly, but Djokovic withdrew from Turin the same evening, giving Musetti his place.

He lost his first match to Fritz 6-3, 6-4, then beat Australian Alex de Minaur 7-5, 3-6, 7-5 after De Minaur had served for the match. Alcaraz beat him 6-4, 6-1 in his last group match.

What is Lorenzo Musetti’s highest ranking?

No. 5, reached in January 2026 after the Hong Kong final. He had first entered the top 10 during the 2025 clay season, after reaching the Monte-Carlo final and the semi-finals in Madrid and Rome.

He left the top 10 in Rome in May 2026 and had dropped to No. 26 before his Lyon title. His current ranking is on his ATP profile.

What happened between Lorenzo Musetti and Novak Djokovic?

Novak Djokovic has been the opponent of Musetti’s most memorable matches. In the fourth round of Roland-Garros in 2021, his first second week at a major, Musetti led by two sets before retiring at 6-7 (7), 6-7 (2), 6-1, 6-0, 4-0. He said he had cramps and lower back pain, and no longer felt able to win a point.

In the last 16 in Monte-Carlo in 2023, he beat the then World No. 1 4-6, 7-5, 6-4, the biggest win of his career by ranking.

In the third round of Roland-Garros in 2024, Djokovic beat him 7-5, 6-7 (6), 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 in a match that ended at 3:07 a.m., the latest finish in the tournament’s history.

The Serbian also beat him in the 2024 Wimbledon and Olympic semi-finals, in the 2025 Athens final, and in the 2026 Australian Open quarter-finals, where Musetti retired with a two-set lead.

Why has Lorenzo Musetti been injured so often?

Musetti’s leg problems began with his retirement in the 2025 Roland-Garros semi-finals. He played no warm-up event before Wimbledon that year and lost in the first round.

In January 2026, a hip injury clouded his preparation for Melbourne, where he retired against Djokovic. By Rome in May, he was nursing his fourth thigh injury in 13 months, and tests then confirmed a rectus femoris injury in his left leg.

Before the Lyon final, after the longest match of his career and a semi-final that went the distance, he said he had been “feeling pain everywhere” before stepping on court.

Does Lorenzo Musetti play UTS?

Yes. Musetti made his UTS debut in Frankfurt in October 2024 under the nickname “The Illusionist”, and reached the semi-finals.