Alcaraz beats injured Musetti to win in Monte Carlo for his 6th Masters 1000 title

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 13, 2025 10:55 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 minutes ago

Carlos Alcaraz defeated an injury-stricken Lorenzo Musetti 3-6, 6-1, 6-0 to triumph the Monte Carlo last connected Sunday and unafraid his sixth Masters 1000 vocation title.

Alcaraz cruised to his archetypal Monte Carlo trophy and his 18th tour-level victory. The 21-year-old Spaniard volition scope No. 2 successful the satellite rankings pursuing the triumph successful Monaco.

Musetti started showing signs of a close limb wounded successful the 3rd acceptable and received attraction astatine 0-3. Playing successful his archetypal Masters 1000 final, the 23-year-old Italian had occupation moving and keeping up with Alcaraz toward the extremity of the match.

"This is not the mode I privation to triumph a match, I truly consciousness atrocious for him," Alcaraz said. "Just truly blessed to person won the Monte Carlo for the archetypal time. It's been a truly hard week, with a batch of hard situations, I'm truly arrogant of myself however I dealt with everything."

Alcaraz has struggled astatine times this twelvemonth and was coming disconnected an opening-round nonaccomplishment to David Goffin successful Miami.

It was Alcaraz's 3rd consecutive clay-court last aft winning the French Open and finishing with a metallic medal astatine the Paris Olympics past year.

Alcaraz was playing successful his 23rd tour-level final. He had needed six lucifer points to enactment distant Spanish compatriot Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 7-6 (2), 6-4 successful the semifinal connected Saturday.

Musetti, whose lone 2 tour-level titles came successful 2022, broke Alcaraz's service doubly to triumph the archetypal set, but Alcaraz came backmost beardown with 2 breaks of his ain successful the 2nd to adjacent the match. Musetti was ne'er overmuch successful contention successful the decider.

Musetti, ranked 13th and a bronze-medalist successful Paris past year, defeated Alex de Minaur 1-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4) successful their semifinal. The Italian had ousted defending champion Stefanos Tsitsipas successful the quarterfinals.

The last was moved guardant by 3 hours due to the fact that dense rainfall was forecast for the evening.