Another important step for the career of the young Roman tennis player, who finds his first success on green before Wimbledon. Out at second in the Spanish city Darderi
Important victory for Flavio Cobolli, who found his first success on grass in the ATP 250 in Eastbourne. The Roman tennis player beat the Frenchman on his debut Arthur Rinderknech with a score of 6-4, 7-5, he will challenge Giles in the next round Hussey who in turn got the better of Mariano Navone. A more complex victory than the score suggests, with Cobolli having to recover a break deficit in the second set after missing the appointment to serve for the set in the first set, only to then suffer a further break during the tenth game. The return on serve is important for the growth on this surface – on which Cobolli has been working for months now – and which still brought 67% points with the first and the same number with the second. Now a good second round against Hussey to put matches in his legs before arriving at Wimbledon.
However, the march towards the Championships comes to a halt Luciano Darderi, who in the ‘250’ in Mallorca lost to the Austrian Sebastian Ofner with a score of 6-3, 7-5 gained in an hour and twenty minutes of play. If the first set was never in question, the Italian-Argentine tried to do something more in the final stages of the second set. In fact, first he canceled two match points when Ofner served for the match, then he recovered the break deficit during the tenth game. When the match seemed to have taken another turn, however, a second break came in favor of the Austrian, who went to serve again for the match and this time ended the match at zero.
