Hubert Hurkacz stops Flavio Cobolli’s run in Cincinnati

The Blue will be the top seed at the US Open

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The Cincinnati tournament è definitely stingy of satisfaction for the Italian tennis players. Flavio Cobolli è was also eliminated from the tournament. The blue è surrendered to Hubert Hurkacz. The Pole, No. 5 in the men’s draw, è won in three sets: 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 the match’s partials. The Pole, in the quarterfinals, will face Frances Tiafoe.

The Italian, in his first round of 16 in a Masters 1000, è surrendered after less than two hours of play. The difference, in favor of the Pole, was the serve with Flavio Cobolli struggling enormously to find a way to respond especially to Hubert Hurkacz’s first serve. In the third set, the Pole made no more mistakes and è took home the victory.

However, he has something to smile about Flavio Cobolli who, thanks to the excellent results achieved in the last period, will play, for the first time in his career, a Slam, i.e., the upcoming US Open, as the top seed. In total, as many as four Italian players will be seeded at the US Open, namely Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Musetti, Matteo Arnaldi and, indeed, Flavio Cobolli.

In Cincinnati, the only Italian still in the running thus remains Jannik Sinner, who is expected to challenge Andrej Rublev. In fact, for the South Tyrolean there will be a chance to avenge the defeat suffered at the Montreal tournament against the Russian.