Match Report
Musetti sets Tabilo final in Chengdu
Top seed Musetti chasing third ATP Tour title
September 22, 2025
Chengdu Open
Lorenzo Musetti is seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin.
By Sam Jacot
Lorenzo Musetti advanced to his seventh tour-level and second of the season on Monday at the Chengdu Open, where he swept aside Alexander Shevchenko 6-3, 6-1 at the ATP 250.
The top-seeded Italian reached his maiden ATP Tour final on hard courts in Chengdu last year, falling to Shang Juncheng in the title match. Aiming to go one step further this week, the 23-year-old won 92 per cent (24/26) of his first-serve points against Shevchenko and did not face a break point, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to advance to the championship match again.
Musetti is up one spot to seventh in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin and is aiming to make his debut on home soil at the Nitto ATP Finals. Musetti’s countryman Jannik Sinner has already qualified for the prestigious year-end event, held from 9-16 November.
Musetti is the first player to reach multiple Chengdu finals in the tournament’s history (since 2016) and will compete for his third tour-level title and first since Naples in 2022 when he meets Alejandro Tabilo in the final.
Qualifier Tabilo continued his impressive run in Chengdu with a 6-4, 7-6(0) triumph against fourth seed Brandon Nakashima after one hour and 36 minutes.
Tabilo won titles in Auckland and Mallorca last year, however he has struggled in the past 18 months. He arrived in Chengdu holding a 5-13 record on the season but has dropped just one set en route to the final, having survived a deciding-set tie-break against Lloyd Harris in the second round of qualifying.
“I think it was very solid throughout the whole match,” Tabilo said. “He served well, so I had to stay there and wait. I started off well today, served well and I am happy with the performance. It has been up and down, a few months out as well, so just so happy to be back in another final.”
The 28-year-old Chilean is up 28 places to No. 84 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings and is set to return to the Top 100 following the ATP 250 event. Musetti’s meeting against Tabilo will be the first in the pair’s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.
