Sinner-Dimitrov, Direct de Wimbledon 2-5: Jannik under a break. Sonego goes to Shelton. Gioia Cobolli, for him there is now Djokovic

Splendid Cobolli: It is in the quarterfinals of Wimbledon

(Marco Calabriasi) The long day of Italian tennis in Wimbledon started With a wonderful victory and with the tears of a dad coach, Stefano CobolliThis Flavio saw him born, growing up at the Parioli Tennis Club, becoming a man and a player. Flavio Cobolli, after reaching the final of 16 for the first time at the championships, did not stop in front of the 2017 Marin Cilic finalist: indeed, brought back a very hard match, closed in four sets After passing the first three laps without even losing one. The one against the Croatian is finished 6-4 6-4 6-7 7-6 in three hours and 26 ‘With the Roman supported on the touch also by his friend Edoardo Bove And who is now waiting for Novak Djokovic or Alex de Minaur in an unimaginable quarter -final until a few months ago. Flavio had seriously started the season, but the first ATP title conquered in Bucharest was the exploding career that explodes: if in Rome, he did not return to pressure, he also won in Hamburg, then in Paris and Halle, he only went to Sascha Zverev and now he is, among the first eight championships and Monday, among the first 20 in the world.

An extraordinary performance, not the first at Wimbledon de Cobolli, who hated grass but who has now started to appreciate it: incisors in response, ice cream in key moments, with a single ball pause granted up to 5-6 in the third set (in the second match of the second). In the first, however, the break for Cobolli arrived on 3-2, on the second occasion of the match after the novel (but born in Florence) also had another in 1-1. The first set, Flavio brought him home with an exceptional servant and volleyball, then opening the second with another embroidery: a lob which against a player one meter high and 98 ‘is far from obvious.

Cobolli continued to answer well, and also did it on the break in the seventh game of the second set, with five consecutive points which gave it the advantage, defended up to 6-4 in a three ACE match. Flavio played as a veteran also for most of the third set, knowing that it was strong and not taking care to play dangerous blows in key moments, as when 30-30 in the second match, he designed a short perfect ball. Or like when, at 5-6 15-30, he put things correctly with an ace. However, an error of law, son of the tension, gave the first point of instructions to the Croatian, always canceled with an ace, just as a sailor did not use the second. He then went to equality break, where blue placed a great recovery on the point of 4-4, but Cilic had another two other sets, the first of which materialized for a double fault of Cobolli.
In the fourth set, the first three break balls arrived for Flavio, but the extension placed the Cilic in the seventh. However, Cobolli’s enormous merit should not be dragged to the fifth: with a transferred fairy tale, he immediately pulled the accounts (counter-control over 4-4), before being two points from the match, then again in equality break. The 3-3, he put the turbo, finding the service: four points in a row and closing at the first match point.
“I always dreamed of being here and playing this tournament – his words -. I started playing tennis for this type of games. There is the whole family here, my father cries, my brother ditto, my friends are the same. Aggressive at every point, and it was the key to win”.