ATP Hamburg, Flavio Cobolli flies to the final after a great comeback
Flavio Cobolli will play a final of the major circuit of professional tennis for the third time in his career, the second at the ATP 500 level. Indeed, in the semifinal of the Hamburg tournament, the Roman tennis player overcame Argentina’s Tomas Martin Etcheverry in three sets, recovering a situation that had become very complicated in the second fraction to close 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in 2 hours and 49 minutes of play.
After a balanced start, the Argentine went on to take the first set thanks mainly to the break won in game six, won on the advantages by taking advantage of the third break point. Cobolli fails to react and after a little more than three quarters of an hour it is Etcheverry who takes the lead in the set count, winning the fraction 6-2.
The blue athlete also failed to get into gear in the second set, at least at the beginning, and went down 3-1: from there on, however, he was able to find a series of effective strokes that allowed him first to recover the break disadvantage and then to complete a 6-2 partial that was worth 7-5 overall. Balanced until 4-4, finally, the third set, with Cobolli, however, having more in the final sprint and winning the last two games, taking home the victory.
The world number 35 will thus play his second final, on the ATP Tour circuit, of 2025: last April 6, in fact, he had managed to reach the final act in Romania, in the ATP 250 tournament in Bucharest, going on to win against Sebastian Baez with a double 6-4. In Hamburg, in addition to Cobolli, there’s another final with Italian athletes as protagonists, that of the doubles, with Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori facing Andres Molteni and Fernando Romboli.
