{"id":244149,"date":"2025-11-04T22:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244149\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T22:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T22:33:07","slug":"lorenzo-sonego-overcomes-fourth-seed-flavio-cobolli-alexander-blockx-advances-in-metz-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/244149\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Sonego overcomes fourth seed Flavio Cobolli, Alexander Blockx advances in Metz | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Match Report<br \/>\n    Sonego overcomes fourth seed Cobolli, #NextGenATP Blockx advances in Metz<\/p>\n<p>Vukic saves 2 MPs, Altmaier, Jacquet earn wins at ATP 250<\/p>\n<p>November 04, 2025<\/p>\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/sonego-metz-2025-tuesday.jpg\" alt=\"Lorenzo Sonego advances to his fourth tour-level quarter-final of the year.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chyslene Caillaud \/ Sport Vision                      <\/p>\n<p>        Lorenzo Sonego advances to his fourth tour-level quarter-final of the year.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Italy\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/lorenzo-sonego\/su87\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lorenzo Sonego<\/a> eliminated countryman and friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/flavio-cobolli\/c0e9\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flavio Cobolli<\/a> on Tuesday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/metz\/341\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Moselle Open<\/a> to reach his fourth tour-level quarter-final of the year.<\/p>\n<p>In the pair\u2019s first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting, Sonego found the crucial break in the 11th game of the third set, earning a hard-fought 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 victory in Metz.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seed Cobolli has earned 31 wins in a productive 2025, lifting trophies in Bucharest and Hamburg. A final run in Metz would have resulted in the 23-year-old ending the season inside the Top 20 in the PIF ATP Rankings but that milestone will have to wait for future years following his early exit at the ATP 250.<\/p>\n<p>Sonego has fond memories in Metz, having clinched the crown in 2022. The 30-year-old will next meet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/hugo-gaston\/g09o\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hugo Gaston<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniel-altmaier\/ae14\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Altmaier<\/a> in the last eight following just his second Top 30 win of the season.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762295587_150_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a title run at an ATP Challenger Tour event, #NextGenATP star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/alexander-blockx\/b0pg\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Blockx<\/a> earned his second tour-level win of the season in Metz, where he overcame Italian qualifier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/francesco-passaro\/p0ct\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francesco Passaro<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old Belgian is fourth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Jeddah and set to compete at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/next-gen-atp-finals\/7696\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Next Gen ATP Finals presented by PIF<\/a> next month. In an impressive serving display against Passaro, Blockx fired 16 aces and saved eight of the nine break points he faced. He is up two spots to No. 100 in the PIF ATP Live Rankings and will next play Frenchman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/clement-tabur\/t09x\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clement Tabur<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Australian <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/aleksandar-vukic\/v832\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandar Vukic<\/a> saved two match points en route to defeating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/corentin-moutet\/mw02\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corentin Moutet<\/a> 3-6, 7-6(6), 7-6(8). Vukic now leads the eighth-seeded Frenchman 2-0 in the pair&#8217;s Lexus ATP Head2Head series and will face <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/matteo-berrettini\/bk40\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matteo Berrettini<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/kyrian-jacquet\/j0az\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyrian Jacquet<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/daniel-altmaier\/ae14\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Altmaier<\/a> also advanced at the ATP 250. French lucky loser Jacquet beat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/luca-van-assche\/v0dz\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luca Van Assche<\/a> 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, while Altmaier eliminated Shanghai finalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/arthur-rinderknech\/rc91\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> 6-4, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Sonego overcomes fourth seed Cobolli, #NextGenATP Blockx advances in Metz Vukic saves 2 MPs, Altmaier, Jacquet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}