# **The Next Gen vs. The King: Why Lorenzo Musetti vs. Novak Djokovic Has the Internet Buzzing** In the world of tennis, where legends are forged and underdogs rise, we’ve got a showdown that’s got the internet more hyped than a TikTok dance challenge. Lorenzo Musetti, the 19-year-old Italian sensation, is taking on Novak Djokovic,…
Lorenzo Musetti, the 22-year-old Italian who looks like he strolled off a Fellini set with a racquet instead of a cigarette, has become the latest reminder that global tennis is now a geopolitical chessboard played on acrylic. Last month in Monte Carlo, Musetti dispatched world No. 1 Novak Djokovic with the same languid shrug one…
Lorenzo Musetti: The Last Italian Romantic in an Age of Algorithmic Tennis By our correspondent in Rome, still waiting for the espresso machine to be fixed since 2019 If tennis were still governed by Renaissance patronage, Lorenzo Musetti would already have a ceiling somewhere—probably the Sistine Chapel gift shop, between Michelangelo’s self-checkout kiosk and a…
