{"id":864738,"date":"2026-08-22T20:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864738\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T20:14:10","slug":"tennis-tennis-fils-powers-past-cobolli-to-reach-cincinnati-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/864738\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis: Tennis-Fils powers past Cobolli to reach Cincinnati final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CINCINNATI, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Arthur Fils produced a commanding 67-minute \u2060display to sweep aside seventh seed \u200cFlavio Cobolli 6-3 6-4 on Saturday and secure his place in the Cincinnati Open final.<\/p>\n<p>The French 21st seed \u200brecovered quickly after Cobolli \u2060broke for a 2-1 \u2060lead, breaking straight back to level at 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>With \u2060the \u200copening set locked at 3-3, Fils improved his performance to take \u2060a 4-3 lead before breaking decisively \u200bin the \u200ceighth game as Cobolli misfired from the \u2060baseline.<\/p>\n<p>Fils, \u200bwho won the Barcelona Open in April, maintained his momentum in the second set, breaking \u2060serve in the opening game.<\/p>\n<p>Cobolli \u200bheld to love at 4-3 to keep the pressure on but Fils proved superior, dictating \u2060play with sharp forehands to gain a 5-4 lead and ultimately clinch victory, having scored 22 winners and six aces.<\/p>\n<p>Four-times ATP \u200bTour champion Fils faces the \u2060winner of the second semi-final between Brandon \u200bNakashima and fellow American \u200cFrances Tiafoe being played later \u200bon Saturday.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Angelica Medina in Mexico City; Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; \u2060Arthur Fils produced a commanding 67-minute \u2060display to sweep aside seventh seed \u200cFlavio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6675,85,747],"class_list":["post-864738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864738","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=864738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}