The final won in Monaco is worth much more than a prestigious result: Flavio Cobolli rises to number 12 in the world rankings, achieving his best ranking and writing a page of history for Italian tennis.
Three Italians in the top twelve: it had never happened
For the first time, in fact, Italy places three tennis players in the top twelve of the ATP ranking: Jannik Sinner number one in the world, Lorenzo Musetti stable among the best ten and now Cobolli at the gates of the absolute elite.
A result never achieved before, which certifies the depth and quality of a movement that is now a leading player on a global level, capable of expressing continuity at the highest levels.
The rise of Cobolli
The jump in the rankings comes at the end of a perfect week on the red clay of Monaco, culminating with the final at the BMW Open. A path that confirms the growth of the 23-year-old Roman, increasingly solid and competitive even against the big names on the circuit.
With this placing, Cobolli definitively enters the elite of world tennis, consolidating a path that began last season with successes in Bucharest and Hamburg and continued in 2026 with the title in Acapulco.
A movement at the top of the world
The figure of the three Italians in the top twelve represents an unrepeatable moment for Italian tennis. The leadership of Sinner, now a reference on the circuit, is accompanied by the continuity of Musetti and the definitive explosion of Cobolli, in a generation that is rewriting the records of the Italian racket.
Numbers and results that tell of an Italy that is increasingly a protagonist, no longer an outsider but a stable presence at the top of world tennis.