{"id":158404,"date":"2025-09-21T08:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158404\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T08:17:12","slug":"what-flavio-cobolli-was-overheard-saying-about-roger-federer-in-his-match-with-joao-fonseca-at-the-laver-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158404\/","title":{"rendered":"What Flavio Cobolli was overheard saying about Roger Federer in his match with Joao Fonseca at the Laver Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flavio Cobolli\u2019s first match at the Laver Cup ended in defeat to Joao Fonseca, giving Team World their first point of the competition. <\/p>\n<p>The Italian was looking to give Team Europe a commanding 3-0 lead after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/reilly-opelka-says-what-is-totally-bizarre-about-the-tennis-courts-at-the-laver-cup-after-losing-to-casper-ruud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casper Ruud\u2019s opening victory<\/a> and Jakub Mensik\u2019s win in the day session. <\/p>\n<p>It was not to be for the 23-year-old, however, when faced with a hard-hitting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/joao-fonseca\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fonseca<\/a>, who defeated him in straight sets to get his side on the board. <\/p>\n<p>The two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Laver-Cup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laver Cup<\/a> debutants went toe-to-toe with 20-time Grand Slam champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/roger-federer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Roger Federer<\/a> watching on, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/Flavio-Cobolli\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cobolli<\/a> couldn\u2019t help but notice during the contest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236357155-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Joao Fonseca and Flavio Cobolli shake hands after their match at the Laver Cup.\" \/>Photo by Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for Laver Cup<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca had taken the first set and was leading 3-2 in the second when his opponent took a moment to speak to his captains, Yannick Noah and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/tim-henman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Henman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cobolli told them: \u201cI can not lose with Roger there cheering for me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Henman consoled him and replied: \u201cCome on, focus, man. You\u2019ve got this. One at a time. Stay aggressive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Team Europe star only managed to take one more game off Fonseca after that, with the final score finishing 6-4, 6-3. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"696\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2236356375-1024x696.jpg\" alt=\"Laver Cup 2025 - Day 1\" class=\"wp-image-131165\" \/>Photo by Ezra Shaw\/Getty Images for Laver CupJoao Fonseca levels his head-to-head with Flavio Cobolli<\/p>\n<p>Fonseca not only got Team World\u2019s first point with his triumph, but also levelled his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a> head-to-head with Cobolli. <\/p>\n<p>Their Laver Cup bout marked the second tour-level meeting between them, following their first clash at the Halle Open earlier this season.<\/p>\n<p>In the first round of the grass-court tournament, Cobolli and Fonseca produced a three-set thriller, lasting two hours and 44 minutes, which featured two tiebreaks. <\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian ultimately suffered defeat in Halle, but got his revenge convincingly in San Francisco. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flavio Cobolli\u2019s first match at the Laver Cup ended in defeat to Joao Fonseca, giving Team World their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,105414,43284,48377,965,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-158404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-flavio-cobolli","11":"tag-joao-fonseca","12":"tag-laver-cup","13":"tag-roger-federer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}