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Cobolli, who collapsed at Wimbledon, Fery beats him and flies to the semifinals

The Englishman who started from the qualifiers and is number 114 in the world plays splendid tennis and eliminates the blue. Zverev is now on the road to the final

He didn’t make it Flavio Cobolli, arrived tired and without energy in the Wimbledon quarter-final against the Englishman Fery who started from the qualifications and from number 114 in the world and after the performances on the London grass he reached number 36 in the world ranking. The Englishman will face in the semi-final Alexander Zverev the winner of Roland Garros, while they will compete in the other semi-final the reigning champion Jannik Sinner and the champion Novak Djokovic, 39 years old and winner of 24 Slam titles (seven at Wimbledon). The result was clear in favor of Frey: 6-4, 7-6, 6-0.

The perfect match

The Cobolli match never started: the Roman seemed to have no energy and above all without that desire to fight that has always characterized his performances. There was no trace of the player who beat De Minaur playing great tennis. From the beginning Cobolli suffered Frey’s game and was never able to impose his own. But above all he didn’t understand that he was crashing into a wall: Frey threw everything back over the net and made very few mistakes, while as time went by the Italian’s errors increased and he also made many mistakes in favorable situations. A bad day that was already evident at the end of the first set when Cobolli had serve broken with the Englishman leading 5-4. In the second set balance until the tie-break, in which Frey was more lucid than the blue and finished 7-4. Down two sets to zero and with evident nervousness growing (more than a discussion with the coach father in the stands) Cobolli handed himself over to an opponent who was now in ecstasy and under the eyes of Queen Camilla he recovered a very heavy 6-0 in the third set. The worst way to end a tournament in which he had thrilled tennis fans with his determination.