{"id":85579,"date":"2025-11-23T20:58:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:58:59","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:58:59","slug":"italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy in the Davis Cup final: Cobolli hero, they seek a three-peat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italy returns to the Davis Cup final after epic battle<\/h2>\n\nItaly, the defending two-time champion, has secured its place in the Davis Cup final after an exciting semi-final. Flavio Cobolli starred in a memorable match against Zizou Bergs of Belgium, with a final score of 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (15), saving seven match points in a dramatic tiebreak.\n\nCobolli, after squandering six opportunities to close out the match, finally secured the victory for Italy. He celebrated effusively with his teammates and then consoled Bergs, who was comforted by his visibly emotional team.\n\nThe tiebreak of the final set, with a score of 17-15, became the sixth longest in Davis Cup history.\n\n\n

We fought for our country, for this victory, but in the end, I realized my dream. I played for my whole team, my family, and it’s one of the best days of my life.<\/p>Flavio Cobolli<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCobolli’s victory secured Italy’s place in the final with an insurmountable 2-0 lead, without the need to play the doubles match. Previously, Matteo Berrettini contributed to the Italian triumph by defeating Raphael Collignon with a score of 6-3, 6-4.\n\n\n

\"Flavio<\/figure>\n\n\nFlavio Cobolli celebrating the victory that led Italy to the Davis Cup final.<\/em>\n\nItaly, with a streak of 13 consecutive victories, will face the winner of the semi-final between Germany and Spain.\n\nBergs, currently ranked number 43, showed a great performance against Cobolli, number 22 in the world, who had the support of the public in Bologna.\n\nIn the tiebreak of the second set, Bergs managed to equalize the score with a powerful forehand. The players exchanged match point opportunities, until Cobolli finally secured the victory with a winning serve.\n\nCobolli celebrated with the team captain, Filippo Volandri, who commented on the match.\n\n\n

In my five years as captain, I have never seen anything like this. But this is what the Davis Cup does. It was incredible. In the end, I told Cobolli, it’s 5% tactics and 95% heart.<\/p>Filippo Volandri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nFor Berrettini, Wimbledon runner-up in 2021 and with 10 individual titles in his career, the match was more relaxed. He secured the first set with his serve against Collignon, number 86 in the world.\n\nCollignon lost his first service game in the second set, but managed to break back to tie it at 2-2. Berrettini withstood his opponent’s aggressive play and broke to go up 4-3, securing the victory on his first match point.\n\nThis edition of the Davis Cup Finals 8 is the sixth since the new format was implemented, where the champion is decided at a neutral venue.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italy returns to the Davis Cup final after epic battle Italy, the defending two-time champion, has secured its place in the Davis Cup final after an exciting semi-final. Flavio Cobolli starred in a memorable match against Zizou Bergs of Belgium, with a final score of 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (15), saving seven match points in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,10527,512,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-85579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-davis-cup","9":"tag-flavio-cobolli","10":"tag-italy","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}