He was unable to hold back the tears, Stefano Cobolli, when his son and pupil Flavio closed the challenge against Marin Cilic in Wimbledongiving himself the first quarter -final in his career in a Slam. “It was still a long journey,” he explained to Supertennis’s microphones, “he made me cry, and happy with the game he did and as he closed it, because in the fourth set I had a little fear: the other played very well, he had a little pulled his oars on the boat. When he then had that strong reaction to the tie-break, raising the quality, raising the bar, I almost didn’t expect it. So I had this emotional reaction a little ».
Flavio is already sure to make his debut in Top 20 from next Monday: “In his game it always seems that there are many difficulties, but through work and his determination, he is having improvements that perhaps I did not expect either”, continued Stefano. “But I knew he could also play well on the grass, and today he showed the news on which we always try to work. Doing to train with the strongest in the world has always been a worry of mine, in order to be able to take ideas from them from the point of view of the attitude. In addition, we have invested a lot on the service – he concluded – and we continue to work on sensitivity ».
