In Geneva big chance missed by Flavio Cobolli against Casper Ruud

In Geneva big chance missed by Flavio Cobolli against Casper Ruud

Big regrets for Flavio Cobolli, who in the second semifinal of the ATP 250 on clay in Geneva, postponed by a day due to rain, è was beaten with a score of 1-6 6-1 7-6 by Norwegian Casper Ruud after missing a match point. It will then be the world No. 7 Norwegian who will face in the final the Czech Tomas Machac, surprise executioner yesterday of Novak Djokovic.

The first two sets were dominated the first by Cobolli and the second by Ruud. The 22-year-old native of Florence but raised in Rome won two breaks in the second and sixth games of the first set and suffered two breaks in the fourth and sixth games of the second, thus losing five games in a row.

In the third set Cobolli saved himself from 15-40 in the first game and è he made the break in the next game then flying to 3-0 and 4-1. In the seventh game he returns forò unfortunately the break and on 5-4 he also misses a match point. Flavio saves a break point on 5-5 and it goes to the tie-break, which ends as everyone feared: Ruud indeed flies to 4-0 and then to 6-2, misses two match points but the third è the good one.

Cobolli thus misses his first final in the ATP major circuit but nevertheless, currently number 58 in the world, on Monday he will have his best ranking ever, number 53, confirming his remarkable progress since the beginning of the year, since at the beginning of the year he was number 101 but especially in mid-April last year he was outside the top 200.