{"id":613161,"date":"2026-05-31T04:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:58:15","slug":"you-see-the-draw-you-see-all-the-matches-flavio-cobolli-the-second-highest-seed-left-in-the-top-half-of-the-draw-refuses-to-dream-openly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613161\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou see the draw. You see all the matches\u2026\u201d: Flavio Cobolli, the second-highest seed left in the top half of the draw, refuses to dream openly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asked on Saturday whether he saw himself as a possible contender for the title, in a Roland-Garros draw whose top half has been emptied of Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic inside 48 hours, Flavio Cobolli answered with two words and a laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cAsk him,\u201d the Italian 10th seed said, gesturing at the journalist. The room laughed. \u201cNo, I\u2019m joking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cobolli gave a fuller answer of the same shape. \u201cOf course I want to think match by match. That\u2019s the way that I want to think this week. I know that there are many possibility to have a new Grand Slam champions, but I don\u2019t want to think about this.\u201d He had just reached the fourth round at Roland-Garros for the first time in his career, beating Learner Tien 6-2 6-2 6-3 on Court Philippe-Chatrier.<\/p>\n

The arithmetic of the draw is the part he was being invited to acknowledge, and didn\u2019t. Cobolli sits in the second quarter, behind F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime \u2013 the only top-ten player left in the entire top half, seed No.4 \u2013 and the next seed above him in his own quarter, Daniil Medvedev, was knocked out in the first round by the Australian Adam Walton.<\/p>\n

His fourth-round opponent will be Zachary Svajda, who defeated Francisco Cerundolo, and his eventual next opponent will F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime (or Brandon Nakashima, or Moise Kouame, or Alejandro Tabilo, based on further results). <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not easy to stay match by match, but I try to do it<\/p>\n


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Cobolli was invited a second time to talk about it. \u201cI know players always like to look match by match, but how do you do it when a tournament turns up like this? What do you go through between matches to stay focused only on the next match?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy,\u201d he said. \u201cYou see the draw. You see all the matches. So we have a lot of time to see the other matches, and it\u2019s not easy to stay match by match, but I try to do it. The only thing that I know is that I won three matches, and I have to play the fourth. For sure it will be tough, and have to be ready to fight again,\u201d he said. \u201cSo for now I\u2019m thinking about the next one.\u201d<\/p>\n

A win would only lead to Cobolli\u2019s second Grand Slam quarter final, and his first in Paris. His previous run at this level came last summer at Wimbledon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Asked on Saturday whether he saw himself as a possible contender for the title, in a Roland-Garros draw…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-613161","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\/613161","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=613161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}