{"id":717795,"date":"2026-06-05T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717795\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T23:11:08","slug":"arnaldi-withdrawal-sends-cobolli-through-to-first-slam-final-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/717795\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnaldi withdrawal sends Cobolli through to first Slam final &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI just know that I can&#8217;t move, and I can&#8217;t eat, and I can&#8217;t drink. So, it&#8217;s, like, there was really no way that I will be able to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cobolli had reached his first major semifinal after an upset of fourth seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in four sets.<\/p>\n<p>It was a bittersweet feeling ahead of facing Zverev for the fifth time with the winner to claim their maiden Grand Slam title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he [Matteo] came to me almost one hour ago, I almost cried,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, it&#8217;s something that you don&#8217;t expect at all. I was ready to play this match. When he came, I was completely sad for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut, at the same time, of course I&#8217;m really happy for the result that I reached this week. My dad also came to me right before him, and we had a big hug together with the whole team for achieving for the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI just know that I can&#8217;t move, and I can&#8217;t eat, and I can&#8217;t drink. So, it&#8217;s, like,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-717795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}