When Flavio Cobolli plays in Shanghai: background with Munar

After being eliminated in the round of 16 of the Beijing ATP 500 at the hands of Learner Tien, Flavio Cobolli is preparing to return to the court at the Shanghai Masters 1000. The Roman, number 22 in the seeding and ATP ranking, will make his debut with Jaume Munar, world number 40.

The match between l’Azzurro and the Spaniard will close the schedule on court 4 of the ‘Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena’ on Friday, Oct. 3. It starts at 6:30 a.m. Italian time (12:30 p.m. local time): two men’s doubles matches, then Luca Nardi vs. Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard before Cobolli-Munar.

There is no precedent between these two players: Flavio starts with the favor of the prediction but he will have to pay attention to the Spanish wrestler who eliminated in a comeback in the first round the Hungarian Marton Fucsovics after almost three hours of battle.

If he wins, in the second round Cobolli could cross paths again with Andrey Rublev, who was just defeated in two sets in the first round of the ‘China Open’ (7-6 6-3).