ATP Shanghai — Felix Auger-Aliassime vs Lorenzo Musetti
Event: Rolex Shanghai Masters • Round: Round of 16 • Surface: Hard
🧠 Form & Context
Felix Auger-Aliassime (🇨🇦 #13 • 193 cm • Right)
- 2025: 38–21 | Hard: 23–9 | Indoors: 6–2 📈
- Shanghai: d. Tabilo 6–3, 6–3; d. de Jong 6–4, 7–5 (no sets dropped).
- US Open SF (wins over Zverev & de Minaur); Cincinnati QF.
- Masters R16 specialist: 10–3 record at this stage historically.
- H2H note: lost to Musetti in Miami 2025 after leading by a set.
Lorenzo Musetti (🇮🇹 #9 • 185 cm • Right)
- 2025: 37–15 | Hard: 18–10 📈
- Asia swing: Chengdu F, Beijing QF (ret.) → Shanghai: d. Comesaña 6–4, 6–0; d. Darderi 7–5, 7–6.
- Masters pace-setter: 19 M1000 wins in 2025 (2nd only to Alcaraz).
- Fitness watch: heavy schedule + recent retirement; dipped physically late vs Darderi.
- Leads H2H 4–3 (won Miami 2025; Olympics 2024).
🔢 Head-to-Head
Musetti leads 4–3 — recent edge: Miami 2025 comeback after FAA led by a set.
🧭 Match Notes
- Serve/1st-strike: FAA’s first-serve + FH combo sets the tone; Musetti wants longer exchanges and BH variety.
- Return patterns: Musetti’s BH redirect into FAA’s BH corner can blunt pace; FAA attacks 2nd serves to avoid cat-and-mouse.
- Physical meter: If pace of play stretches, Musetti’s variety/tempo shifts improve; any fade from Beijing niggle tilts toward FAA.
🔍 Full Match Breakdown
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