Fabio Fognini and Flavio Cobolli, the return to clay is winning

After Wimbledon, it’s back to clay

After the Wimbledon tournament is over, the tennis season lives another interlude on clay, waiting to experience another big event in Paris, for the Olympic tournaments to be played on the courts of Roland Garros. Among the tennis players capable of immediately regaining confidence on clay are also two Italians, Fabio Fognini and Flavio Cobolli.

Fognini, who was eliminated in the third round of the Wimbledon tournament after being up two sets to one against Bautista Agut, eliminated Frenchman Titouan Droguet in the first round of the tournament in Gstaad, Switzerland, with a 6-4, 6-3 final that accurately reflects the course of a match that lasted just under an hour and a half.

Cobolli è instead engaged in Germany, in Hamburg: in the first round, the 2002 class tennis player born in Florence but raised in Rome got the better of Daniel Altmaier, winning 6-4, 6-7(6), 6-3 a match that lasted two hours and forty-one minutes, which saw the German surrender only in the very last games.

The two Italian tennis players are both part of the Top 100 of the ATP world rankings updated as of July 15: Fabio Fognini è No. 80, with 727 points, while Flavio Cobolli è No. 48 at exactly 1,000. Leading the ranking è still Jannik Sinner, who has 9,570 points.