Fifth-seeded Italian Flavio Cobolli outlasted Miomir Kecmanovic 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4 on Friday to book a title clash with Frances Tiafoe in the ATP hard-court tournament in Acapulco.<\/p>\n
Cobolli<\/a> trailed 1-3 in the final set but won five of the next six games to stay on course for a third ATP title<\/a> to go with clay-court victories in Bucharest and Hamburg last year.<\/p>\n The 23-year-old from Florence fended off two break points at 3-3 in the third, saving both with forehand winners.<\/p>\n Unable to serve out the match at 5-3, he broke Kecmanovic<\/a> in the next game to secure the victory over the Serbian, who had beaten world number four Alexander Zverev<\/a> in the second round.<\/p>\n “I think we both played an amazing match,” Cobolli said. <\/p>\n “I was a little bit lucky at the end, because at the crucial points sometimes you need luck. I’m really proud of myself because it wasn’t easy to come back.”<\/p>\n Eighth-seeded Tiafoe<\/a> rallied from a set and a break down to beat fellow American Brandon Nakashima<\/a> 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-4<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fifth-seeded Italian Flavio Cobolli outlasted Miomir Kecmanovic 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4 on Friday to book a title clash with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451740,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451739","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=451739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451739\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}