{"id":621865,"date":"2026-06-05T02:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621865\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T02:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T02:56:22","slug":"the-resurrection-of-matteo-arnaldi-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/621865\/","title":{"rendered":"The resurrection of Matteo Arnaldi &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cObviously it was a question mark today,\u201d he said, explaining that he took Tuesday as a rest day to conserve what energy he has left. \u201cI just came here, did some physio and some stuff in the gym. Today I was actually feeling pretty good.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even if the fatigue is setting in, the adrenaline of making a career-changing run is keeping Arnaldi\u2019s spirits high.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t complain,\u201d he said. \u201cI have been playing a lot but at the same time, I&#8217;m happy to be on court and to spend time on court, because I missed playing. I for sure have some energy left for the next matches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked to describe his emotions after moving through to the semifinal, he said, \u201cI still can\u2019t believe it. If I think about where I was a month ago, I was almost No. 150 in the world. Then I played the Challenger in Cagliari and from there I started to feel better and train again like I wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow I\u2019m here. It\u2019s crazy to think, but I always liked this tournament and I always play well here. Two years ago I made the fourth round, so I love to play in front of this crowd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arnaldi\u2019s next challenge, against No. 10 seed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/42928-f.cobolli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Flavio Cobolli<\/a>, will be the first all-Italian singles semifinal at a Grand Slam event in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than worry that the test will prove too physical, Colangelo and Arnaldi prefer to keep dreaming that they can beat the odds. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou start winning, you win matches that you almost lose, and then something happens,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you have his level, then it&#8217;s easy to change. He started to play better, to move better \u2013 it\u2019s tennis, it can be like this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cObviously it was a question mark today,\u201d he said, explaining that he took Tuesday as a rest day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-621865","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\/621865","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=621865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}