PARIS (AP) — italian the man will be in it french open final but not Jannik Sinner.
do not have Lorenzo MusettiEither.
Flavio Cobolli beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach his first Grand Slam semi-final and will next face one of the two Italian players who will play later, Matteo Arnaldi or Matteo Berrettini. That means either Cobolli or a player named Matteo will be in Sunday’s final.
“My two best friends on tour, me and Matteo in the semifinals,” Cobogli said.
Sinner and Musetti both reached the last four a year ago, but are on opposite sides of the draw, and Friday will see the first all-Italian men’s semi-final in Grand Slam history.
It has been exactly 50 years since an Italian won the French Open and 1976 winner Adriano Panatta was asked to present the Coupe des Mousquetaires trophy this year before the tournament.
Cobolli is from the same Roman tennis club as Panatta, Tennis Club Parioli.
2nd seed alexander zverev And No.26 Jakub Mencik They will face each other in the other semi-final.
Italian tennis is booming, but Cobolli (14th), Arnaldi (104th) and Berrettini (105th) never expected the Azzurri to make it this far.
top Sinner arrived in Paris on a 29-game winning streak. He wasted three match points in last year’s final against Carlos Alcaraz and looked destined to win the title.
Musetti was unable to return to Roland Garros this year due to injury.
But Cobolli, who is the same age as Sinner and Musetti, has lost just two sets in five matches.
On a windy day inside the Court of Philippe Chatrier, Auger-Aliassime whiffed overhead on the first point of the match and appeared upset when loud music was accidentally turned on from the stadium’s speakers at a crucial point late in the third set.
Still, the Canadian took the first set, after which Koboli left the court to regain his composure.
“I thought for a while and went to the bathroom to make a change,” Kobori said. “I told myself I had to give it my all because I felt like this was the chance of a lifetime.”
Cobolli was a talented soccer player who was a member of a youth club in Rome before deciding to devote himself to tennis full-time. He was invited to join the Paris Saint-Germain players when they organized a soccer match. champions league trophy Hit the tennis court at the beginning of the week.
Regardless of the outcome of the semi-finals, Koboli will break into the top 10 of the rankings for the first time next week. He might even take home his own trophy.
Kobori said this week has been “the best week of my life.”
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