Flavio Cobolli wins an incredible match in the third round of Wimbledon. The Italian beat the Russian Khachanov after five very tough sets and after being 2-1 down in the sets and losing the first set 6-0!
The Roland Garros finalist won with a score of 6-0, 6-7, 7-6, 2-6, 2-6. Now in the round of 16 he will challenge the Australian De Minaur.
Cobolli: “In the first set I didn’t feel good with my stomach”
«I didn’t feel good with my stomach. – he said in the interview at the center of the pitch – Then fortunately the doctor helped me, and when I returned to the pitch my stomach was ok…Maybe I played too early”, he added to the laughter of the audience. Cobolli also explained his celebration as a surfer: «It’s a bet with my coach, we follow the football World Cup and I like how Brazil celebrates», he said, referring to Cunha. “Today I have to thank the public: I felt like I was playing in the Davis Cup, a competition to which I always respond. – concluded Sonego – I gave my all on the pitch, I died: now a nice dinner and recovery, because the tournament doesn’t end here.”
Sonego didn’t make it to Wimbeldon
Lorenzo Sonego failed to become the fourth Italian in history to reach at least three times the round of 16 of the men’s singles at Wimbledon.
The 31-year-old tennis player from Turin, number 69 in the ATP ranking, surrendered in the round of 32 to the American Taylor Fritz, seeded number 6 and seventh in the world, who cameback in four sets with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6(5), after two hours and 35 minutes of play.
Fritz in the round of 16
For a place in the quarter-finals, Fritz will face the winner of the match between his compatriot Frances Tiafoe, number 19 in the ATP ranking and 17th seed, and the Kazakh Alexander Bublik, number 11 in the world ranking and tenth seed of the tournament.