Musetti, sinking at the US Open: "I'm fed up, I don't deserve this ordeal"

Lorenzo Musetti cannot get out of the hole he has been in since he got injured in Melbourne earlier this year. Whether due to various factors or not, the Italian is unable to find any continuity and encounters all kinds of unpleasant surprises, such as the heatstroke he suffered at the US Open 2026 that led to his elimination. He talked about all this in a press conference.

Sad, heartbreaking, and hard to accept. This must be how Lorenzo Musetti feels when faced with another physical problem. This time it has been related to the heat and the thermal shock experienced in New York, which has left the Italian in a state of total physical blockage from which he tried to escape as best he could, but it was impossible. Dane Sweeny put the final nail in the coffin at the US Open 2026 against a man completely sunk in the press conference.

This is what Musetti said after being eliminated from the US Open 2026

Musetti explains what happened

"It could be many things. Without a doubt, the heat didn’t help me. And also the air conditioning here: I think that the temperature is too low and there is too much contrast between the inside and the outside. This year we don’t have the chance to warm up physically outside and acclimatize a bit. I think the shock in terms of temperature was quite significant and could have contributed to this discomfort."

"I mainly think about the areas where we warm up, like the gym, physiotherapy, or the player area. I think it’s too cold there. I don’t know. I need to look deeper to find an answer, but I imagine it was some kind of heatstroke."

"Unfortunately, I never managed, despite taking certain breaks, to regain my energy or find an acceptable physical condition."

"Honestly, I’m fed up with retiring, I’m fed up with these things. This year really feels like an odyssey to me. Just like the movie came out, it seems like my 2026 is an odyssey. You have to accept it and move on."

The irrational resilience of Musetti

"Thinking about winning the match never crossed my mind. Unfortunately, I did not improve since this discomfort began. At the end of the match, I even think I was getting worse."

"I tried to do everything I could from a medical and physical standpoint to find a solution to what was happening, but I couldn’t. He also played a good match in my opinion, and, honestly, in the last three sets today, it’s hard to talk about tennis."

What he tried to improve his feelings

Musetti also detailed the measures taken during the match to try to stabilize his physical condition. The player explained that the options were limited and compared what happened to similar situations seen before on the circuit.

"We can’t take anything, basically. Ice, trying to lower the temperature, sugar. When we saw it with Jannik in Paris, I think it was a similar situation. Once you, so to speak, cross a threshold, it’s hard to go back to the previous state."

"Unfortunately, we often push our bodies to the limit, and today was one of those situations. For me, it was perhaps the first time I experienced something like this, and it was difficult to recover."

The US Open, a missed opportunity for Musetti

"I don’t really feel like I deserve everything that’s happening to me after the efforts I’m making to come back and the sacrifices I’ve made over the last two months."

"I missed the last Grand Slam and had to retire there. Here I didn’t retire to honor the match and try to see if I could regain a bit of energy. There’s little to take away. I hope to find some kind of balance."

"Today, honestly, I think it doesn't have much to do with physical preparation. It’s more a matter of the climatic conditions that occurred, and you have to accept it."

This new setback for Lorenzo Musetti could have severe consequences for the Italian player's morale, as he sees how the Grand Slam season has evaporated without him being able to compete at full performance in any of them from start to finish. The US Open 2026 is left without one of the candidates to do big things in New York.

This is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Musetti, hundido en el US Open: "Estoy harto, no merezco esta odisea"