When does Flavio Cobolli play in the Roland Garros final and where to watch it on TV (including free to air): history with Zverev

A date with history for Flavio Cobolli, who plays the first Slam final of his career in Paris on Sunday. The Italian tennis player has been the protagonist of two weeks as a true protagonist at Roland Garros, overcoming in series Andrea Pellegrino, Wu, Tien, Svajda, Auger-Aliassime and finally Matteo Arnaldi, who withdrew before the start of the semifinal due to a virus.

Now between the new world number 10 and the historic triumph 50 years after Adriano Panatta’s victory there is the most difficult obstacle, Alexander Zverev, also in the hunt for the first career Slam title. The German tennis player, in his fourth Slam final, is undoubtedly favored and more determined than ever to seize the opportunity, given the absences of Jannik Sinner, Carlos Alcaraz and Novak Djokovic.

The final will be played on the Philippe-Chatrier center court on Sunday, June 7, not before 3 p.m. The two tennis players, who have a very good relationship with each other, have faced each other four times in their careers, with the German leading by three wins to one. Cobolli’s last success was in this year’s Munich tournament, when he won in two sets in the semifinals, while in the last previous one in Madrid Zverev got the better of them.

The match will be visible on Eurosport channels, as well as Discovery+ and HBO Max. The final will also be broadcast free-to-air on Channel Nine.

Throwing a shadow over Zverev’s eve is a statistic that has his fans trembling: Zverev’s last six defeats on the ATP circuit have all come against Italian tennis players. Germany’s number one was eliminated by Jannik Sinner in Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid, while in Munich it was Cobolli himself who ousted him from the tournament. The last defeat in order of time came in Rome at the hands of Luciano Darderi. A real Italian curse that the German hopes to break precisely in the most important final of his career.