In front of the always friend, the Fiorentina midfielder Edoardo Bove, Flavio leaves the scene in the first round of the ATP 500 tournament (6-3 6-2 the score). In 2025 he has not yet won

Lorenzo Topello

February 3 – 15:08 – MILAN

Flavio Cobolli’s adventure immediately ends on Rotterdam’s ATP 500. The coupling with Hurkacz was complicated, it was known: in addition, the physical condition has yet been not optimal of the blue of the blue, which calls the medical timeout after a few games and leaves the field between the first and second partial. Therefore, nothing to do for Flavio, who also left the scene in the first round last week in Montpellier: the Polish wins 6-3 6-2 and accesses the second round where he awaits one between Lehecka and Popyrin. A shame for the blue who immediately greets the Dutch tournament. In his corner there was also his friend of Edoardo Bove, the Fiorentina midfielder stopped for two months after the illness during the match with Inter. The two are like brothers: Edoardo had also followed him in the last Wimbledon tournament. The blue had won his match against Hijikata, thus telling the emotion of having the footballer by his side: “He chose to come and see me this week, the last of his holidays. I went to greet my grandmother and there It was he who cried like a child. ” Always together, from an early age.

Falco eye breakdown

Proceed on serves at the opening, then a couple of surprises arrive. Cobolli falls on the ankle leaving the service and calls the Medical Timeout. The game then stops for about ten minutes on 2-2 due to a technical problem with the hawk eye. It recovers after about ten minutes with Cobolli caressing the idea of ​​the break leaving the opponent on 15-30: the blue defuses the Polish’s smash and then designs the descent to the net, but his lunge turns off against the ribbon . Nothing to do, Hurkacz keeps the service. Indeed, the break at the next game drops by taking advantage of a blow of Flavio’s unloading that ends up at the net: the Polish climbs on 4-2 and then protects the break going to serve for the set. On the 5-3 Hurkacz trembles in one circumstance, when he grants Ball Break (the first of the game) but erases it with a great external service. And then it closes to the benefits: 6-3 in 42 minutes.

Second partial

Hurkacz starts strong in the second set by immediately building the break ball, deleted from the powerful second of the blue service. When accelerating, however, the Polish frightens. And tear the service to the third game, taking 2-1 thanks to the passer-by with whom he evades the descent to Cobolli. Hurkacz, out of the scene decidedly early in Melbourne (Amaro 0-3 in the second round with Kecmanovic), seems much more perky than the version observed in Slam and leaves no room for break balls during the whole partial. Indeed, on 4-2 it builds two more to further shorten the challenge. And it is centering the second. All downhill, at this point: it ends 6-3 6-2 in an hour and a quarter. Hurkacz passes, while Cobolli is still dry of victories in 2025.



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