The ride continues Flavio Cobolli in the’ATP250 of Geneva. On the Swiss red clay, the Roman tennis player defeated with a double 6-4 the Kazakh Alexander Shevchenko (no. 61 in the world) in 58 minutes of the match. With this result Cobolli has achieved the semi-finalwhere he will face the winner of the challenge between the Norwegian Casper Ruud and the Argentine Sebastian Baez. A victory that also applies to him position n.53 in the virtual ranking.
In the first set It takes the blue a few games to get going. On the backhand side the Kazakh manages to create some embarrassment, but the growth in the performance of the forehand is the key for our standard bearer. Holding his ground in the first laborious rounds of service, Flavio scored the break in the seventh game with some excellent returns. A decisive breakthrough for the purposes of the fraction, given the epilogue with the score 6-4.
In the second set Cobolli plays more fluently and his level rises. Shevchenko struggles to keep up with the pace set by the Italian and so two breaks arrive which bring the 2002 class from the Bel Paese to 5-1. However, there is a bit of uncertainty in the eighth game, when the young Italian tennis player does not take advantage of two match points, suffering a partial counter-break. However, Flavio did well to reset and not nullify the second break advantage, managing the ninth game in an optimal way (6-4).
Reading the statistics, Cobolli made the difference with the points won with the first serve (82% compared to the rival’s 69%) and in response to the opponent’s first serve (38% compared to 18). For Flavio 14 winners and 11 unforced errors.
