Flavio Cobolli outlasts Joao Fonseca 5-7 7-6(3) 7-6(8) in the 1st round in Halle on Tuesday after conquering a huge battle. Cobolli will try to keep the momentum against Denis Shapovalov in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 44 minutes. This will be his best result in this tournament. In the past, the best he could do was reaching the 1st round in 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Flavio added to his prize money € 17,215 after winning this match. He has already won € 36,885 after this win. If he wins the next match, Flavio will add € 32,215 to his earnings to get in total € 69,100 in total.
Highlights Flavio Cobolli vs. Joao Fonseca Terra Wortmann Open – Halle
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
Cobolli won this match even if he won less points than Fonseca (127 vs. 131).
Cobolli
The Italian blasted 11 aces and he committed 3 double faults. Flavio wasn’t able to conquer any break point to conquer the match only at the tiebreaks.
Fonseca
On the other side, Fonseca was struggling when converting his break points (only 11% – 1/9). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Cobolli and Fonseca is 1-0 for Flavio.
Draw and next match H2H: Flavio Cobolli vs. Denis Shapovalov – stats
Cobolli will square off with Shapovalov in the 2nd round.
There is no head to head record between Flavio Cobolli and Denis Shapovalov since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Live score progression and stats
Both players managed to hold their serve for the entire set. The only difference was just 1 break that the Brazilian conquered in the 11th game (6-5) just before ultimately winning the set (7-5).
Flavio was completely outplayed in the last 4 games of the set when the game count went from 4-5 to 7-5.
The Brazilian was exemplary in converting all his break points in the 2nd (1-1 30-40 and 40-A) and the 11th game (5-5 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Brazilian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.
They played 76 points. Joao was the winner of the set after clinching 4 more points than Cobolli (40-36). The Brazilian lost 7 points on serve (26-7). on the other side of the court, Flavio conceded 14 points on serve (29-14).
Cobolli won the set after he broke the Brazilian .
They played 93 points. It’s worth to point out that, Cobolli won this set even if he scored less points 1 than Fonseca (46-47). Flavio dropped 11 points on serve (23-11). On the losing side, Joao conceded 23 points on serve (36-23).
Nothing could divide these 2 players in this set and therefore the pair went to fight for it in the breaker. Eventually, Flavio won a thrilling breaker 10-8 after a huge fight with 18 points played.
Tiebreak
The Italian won 6 minibreaks in the 5th
(3-2), 8th (5-3), 12th (6-6), 13th (7-6), 17th (9-8) and 18th (10-8) point. On the other side, Joao won 4 minibreaks in the 6th (3-3), 10th (5-5), 11th (6-5) and 14th (7-7) point.This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 3-2, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 5-4, 5-5, 5-6, 6-6, 7-6, 7-7, 8-7, 8-8, 9-8, 10-8
Neither player conceded a single break point during this set. Flavio saved 1 set point when he was trailing 5-6. On the other side, Fonseca was unable to convert any of his 4 break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 40-A and 40-A) and the 8th game (4-3 30-40 and 40-A).
They played 89 points. There was not much difference between these 2 since finally Flavio won only 1 point more than the Brazilian (45-44). Flavio dropped 20 points on serve (35-20). on the other side of the court, the Brazilian conceded 10 points on serve (24-10).
Tennis Scores in Halle
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- Lorenzo SonegoSonego – Jan-Lennard StruffStruff (6-3 6-2)
- Flavio CobolliCobolli – Joao FonsecaFonseca (5-7 7-63 7-68)
- Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime – Laslo DjereDjere (6-3 6-76 6-1)
- Tomas MachacMachac – Jesper De JongDe Jong (7-5 3-6 6-3)
- Denis ShapovalovShapovalov – Ugo HumbertHumbert (6-4 4-6 7-64)
- Tomas Martin EtcheverryMartin Etcheverry – Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero (6-1 6-3)
- Jannik SinnerSinner – Yannick HanfmannHanfmann (7-5 6-3)
- Alex MichelsenMichelsen – Francisco CerundoloCerundolo (2-6 7-5 6-4)
- Fabian MarozsanMarozsan – Miomir KecmanovicKecmanovic (6-73 6-4 6-4)
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Daniel AltmaierAltmaier (6-3 6-3)
- Alexander BublikBublik – Alexandre MullerMuller (6-4 6-4)
- Stefanos TsitsipasTsitsipas – Luciano DarderiDarderi (6-4 3-6 7-65)
- Quentin HalysHalys – Benjamin BonziBonzi (6-4 6-4)
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