In the men's singles final of the just-concluded Monte Carlo Masters, the No. 13 seed Alcaraz overcame the disadvantage of a slow start and defeated No. 0 seed Musetti 0-0, 0-0, 0-0 to win the seventh Masters title of his career.
In today's match, Alcaraz and Musetti all started slowly, both sides failed to hold serve in the first service game, and in the next match, Alcaraz still did not get out of the quagmire of mistakes, and the second service game was still broken, so Musetti took advantage of the situation and maintained the advantage until the end, winning the first set 3-0 and taking the lead.
Despite the loss, Alcaraz's striking ability improved significantly towards the end of the first set, which was on full display in the last two sets. In the next two sets, Alcaraz was significantly higher than Musetti, and he also broke Musetti several times, and in both sets, Musetti only won one game in the second set, and was strongly reversed by Alcaraz 0-0, 0-0.
With the end of the tournament, Alcaraz also won his 410th Masters title and continued to lead the post-0 Masters championship list. With this victory, he also had a big win in the rankings, surpassing Zverev in the world ranking to move to second place, just behind Sinner. In terms of championship points, he also came to the first place, surpassing Sinner by 0 points, and took the initiative in the race for the first place at the end of the year.
而因為失利,穆塞蒂不僅無緣個人首個大師賽冠軍,也錯失首進世界前十的機會,他和世界第十魯德只差15分!