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40 ITFWorld // SPRING 2019 A U S T R A L I A N O P E N J U N I O R S WHILE LORENZO MUSETTI WAS FORCED TO QUASH RUMOURS HE OWNED A FERRARI – "NOT YET, BUT I HOPE TO IN FUTURE " WAS THE THEN 16-YEAR-OLD'S retort – his exploits in Melbourne left him firmly behind the wheel of a burgeoning career. Musetti, who laughed off suggestions he possessed a high-end luxury sports car despite the lack a driving licence, was pushed to the limit by No. 13 seed Emilio Nava in the Australian Open boys' final on Rod Laver Arena. Top seed Musetti was forced to save a championship point before clinching a deciding 10-point tiebreak, becoming just the fifth Italian boy to win a junior Grand Slam and first since Gianluigi Quinzi at Wimbledon in 2013. Nava had already saved three championship points of his own when he overcooked a forehand, allowing Musetti to drop to the court in celebration, safe in the knowledge he had exorcised the ghost of his US Open final defeat in September. "I was not thinking, I was just playing – living every point," said Musetti, who won the finale 4-6 6-2 7-6(12). "It was a fantastic tiebreak. Emilio played really well and saved three match points. Match point was unbelievable. "I had a lot of pressure since the first rounds, but I got a REIGNS, DANES AND AUTOMOBILES The first major titles of the junior calendar were claimed by Lorenzo Musetti and Clara Tauson at the Junior Australian Open Tauson sealed her maiden junior Grand Slam title in Melbourne Fernandez had no answer to Tauson in the girls' finale Away from juniors action, Argentina's Fernandez triumphed in the men's wheelchair singles

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