MELBOURNE, Australia — Lorenzo Musetti’s man bun is a thing of the past: The Italian tennis player showed up at the Australian Open with his famously lengthy locks sheared, and he wound up winning his first-round match by, um, a hair.
The 16th-seeded Musetti, a Wimbledon semifinalist last July and Paris Olympics bronze medalist last August, needed four hours and six minutes to get past countryman Matteo Arnaldi 7-6 (4), 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at Melbourne Park.
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Gone were the strands that dangled nearly to his shoulders under a backward white hat at the All England Club and, as recently as late November, at the Davis Cup Finals, which Italy won.
Gone was the top knot the 22-year-old Musetti featured at the Summer Games.
“For now, the short hair had a good start in Australia. Let’s hope it can bring me luck,” Musetti said. “It’s a new look. But if I hadn’t had such long hair for such a long time, people wouldn’t even have noticed it.”
