Article by Luminița Paul – published on Saturday, July 5, 2025, 20:40 / Updated on Saturday, 05 July 2025 20:44
The Italian Flavio Cobulli (23 years old, the 24th place) advanced in the 4th round at Wimbledon, defeating him 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 on Czech Jakub MensiK (19 years, world number 17) and succeeding his best performance in major tournaments. Then he admitted that he had long hated the grass.
Jannik Sinner He is not the only Italian player qualified so far in the finals at Wimbledon. Even shortly before the world leader, another compatriot, Flavio Cobulli, the occupant of the 24th place, took his ticket for the fourth round, which means to him in a high-slam tournament.
Cobolli clearly defeated, in a minimum of sets, on the champion in the Masters 1000 tournament this year, Czech Jakub mensik: 6-2, 6-4, 6-2 in one hour and 48 minutes. So far, the Italian had advanced to the third round in the other major competitions, at the Australian Open and the US Open in 2024, at Roland Garros in the present season.
But he broke the patterns at Wimbledon, where few would have thought he could get such an important result. Not even him, Flavio recognizing the candid that is the surface he hates a few years ago.
Flavio Cobulli: “I was born on the slag, like everyone in Italy”
“I grew up playing on the slag, from the first times when I tried to compete on the grass I felt lost. I hated this surface a few years ago, when I played here in the junior tour. But for some time I enjoy her“, Cobolli revealed, which before Wimbledon came to” quarters “at Halle.
8 – 8It is the Victorii-Friends Balance of Flavio Cobulli's grass in the professional circuit after the victory with MensiK
“It is something I dreamed of a lot since I started playing tennis. Especially here, it is fantastic to get to the finals,” he said. “I think I played one of the best matches in my life, almost perfect. I am happy that I can play on the grass, but now it's time to recover and think about the next round,” Cobulli pointed out.
Fantastico Flavio 🇮🇹
FLAVIO COBOLLI REACHES HIS First Grand Slam 4R, Beating Jakub MensiK 6-2, 6-4, 6-2#Wimbledon pic.twitter.com/xliw09jxyc
– Wimbledon (@wimbledon) JULY 5, 2025
Flavio Cobulli, double ATP champion on slag
After a good start to the United Cup, the 2025 season slipped on an unhappy slope for the Italian young man. He lost 8 of the next 9 matches played before hitting Bucharest, at Tiriac Open, where he won the first career title. Later, in May, it was also imposed on Hamburg, also on the red surface.
At the GSP question, he classified the surfaces in the order of preference to play on them. “I was born on the slag, like everyone in Italy, but in recent years I think I trained and played several matches on hard“, Flavio weighed the answer.
“So now I like the hard drive, even indoor. Maybe on the slag is a little easier for me because of the service, I don't have too strong one, so if I made a ranking now they would be slag, hard and then grass“.
Flavio Cobulli in action at Wimbledon Photo: Guliver/Gettyimages
In Italy most lands are slag. You need more time to play on the grass. Now I feel happy because I play well and because I can try things used on the slag or hard. I think it's okay for me because I think I have one of the best returns in the circuit – Flavio Cobulli
He also said, quoted by Ubitennis, that things have come back for him because “I try to be better and outside the field. Something has changed, and with my team I work better. I think it is the key to becoming a very good player.”
20It is the place occupied for the time being by Flavio Cobulli in the LIVE ATP standings, a 4 -position leap thanks to the qualification in “Optimi”
For a place in the quarterfinals, Flavio will face the winner in the match Marin Cilic – Jaume Munar.
