The 21st century
Italy · born Carrara, 2002 · one-handed backhand · Wimbledon semi-finalist 2024 · Queen's finalist 2024
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Best Wimbledon result, 2024
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Grass final, Queen's 2024
3h 27m
Five-set quarter-final win over Fritz, 2024
No. 5
Career-high ranking, January 2026
Born in Carrara on 3 March 2002, Musetti has been coached since childhood by Simone Tartarini. He won the Australian Open boys' title in 2019 and his first two tour titles in 2022, in Hamburg, where he beat Carlos Alcaraz in the final, and in Naples. In 2024 he reached the Wimbledon semi-finals and won singles bronze at the Paris Olympics, beating Félix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 for the first Italian Olympic tennis medal in about a century. He reached a career-high ranking of No. 5 in January 2026, then retired from his Australian Open quarter-final against Novak Djokovic while two sets up. A thigh injury sustained in Rome in May kept him off grass entirely in 2026, and he withdrew from Wimbledon on 17 June.
| Wimbledon singles | First round 2021 and 2022; third round 2023; semi-final 2024; first round 2025; withdrew injured 2026 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2024 | Seeded 25th, he beat Taylor Fritz 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in the quarter-final, then lost the semi-final to Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-6 (2), 6-4 |
| Queen's | Quarter-final 2023, beaten by Holger Rune; final 2024, lost to Tommy Paul 6-1, 7-6 (8) |
| Stuttgart | Quarter-final 2023, beaten by Frances Tiafoe |
| Wimbledon 2025 | Seeded 7th and without a grass match that summer, he lost in the first round to the qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili 2-6, 6-4, 5-7, 1-6 |
| Grass titles | None to date |
"I don't think I've realised yet what I have done."
The person behind the player.
Queen's 2024
He reached his third tour-level final and his first on grass, where Tommy Paul beat him 6-1, 7-6 (8) in 88 minutes. Paul, winning his own first grass title, said Musetti was seen as a clay-court player who had proven people wrong, and called him "a force on the grass courts."
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2024
His son Ludovico was born in 2024, during a season he said was not going in the right direction. After reaching the semi-finals he explained what changed: "Instead of me teaching my son things, it was him who made me realize how lucky I was." He said he felt more mature as a player and as a father.
Source: Tennis TempleWimbledon 2024 · Quarter-final
His five-set win over Taylor Fritz took 3 hours 27 minutes and was his first major quarter-final. With Jasmine Paolini also in the women's semi-finals, it was only the second time an Italian man and woman had reached the last four at the same major; the first had come at Roland Garros five weeks earlier.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2024 · Semi-final
In their first meeting on grass Djokovic beat him in straight sets. Musetti said his best chances to break came in the second set, and that Djokovic deserved the win. Of the returning he faced near the end, he said: "I have to say today was really a joke at the end how he was returning."
Source: Tennis MajorsWimbledon 2025 · First round
An adductor injury from his Roland Garros semi-final against Carlos Alcaraz kept him out of every grass event before Wimbledon. Seeded seventh, he lost to the qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili in four sets and called it "a really bad performance", saying he had struggled to feel comfortable on court from the start.
Source: ATP TourWimbledon 2026
He hurt the rectus femoris muscle in his thigh at the Italian Open in May and missed Roland Garros. On 17 June he withdrew from Wimbledon on Instagram, saying rehabilitation was going well but he had not yet begun full athletic training. "It is not an easy decision, but it is the right one."
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