{"id":87034,"date":"2025-11-25T05:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T05:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T09:26:17","slug":"italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/italy-in-the-davis-cup-final-cobolli-hero-they-seek-a-three-peat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy in the Davis Cup final: Cobolli hero, they seek a three-peat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Italy returns to the Davis Cup final after Cobolli&#8217;s epic victory<\/h2>\n\n\nItaly, the defending champion, has secured its place in the Davis Cup final. Flavio Cobolli starred in a memorable match, overcoming Zizou Bergs of Belgium with scores of 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (15). The match, full of drama, saw Cobolli save seven match points before securing the victory.\n\nAfter squandering six opportunities to close out the match, Cobolli finally achieved the long-awaited victory. He celebrated effusively with his teammates and then consoled Bergs, who was comforted by his team after the defeat.\n\nThe final tiebreak of the third set, with a score of 17-15, became the sixth longest in Davis Cup history.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We fought for our country, for this victory, and in the end, I realized my dream. I played for my whole team, my family, and it&#8217;s one of the best days of my life.<\/p><cite>Flavio Cobolli<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nCobolli&#8217;s victory secured the triumph for Italy, leaving the doubles match as a mere formality. Previously, Matteo Berrettini had contributed to the Italian cause by defeating Raphael Collignon with a score of 6-3, 6-4.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1121%2Fr1578806_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Flavio Cobollii celebrando la victoria\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Flavio Cobolli celebrating the victory that led Italy to the Davis Cup final.<\/em>\n\nItaly reaches the final with a streak of 13 consecutive victories and will face the winner of the semi-final between Germany and Spain.\n\nThe captain of the Italian team, Filippo Volandri, expressed his amazement at Cobolli&#8217;s performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In my five years as captain, I had never seen anything like it. This is what the Davis Cup does. It was incredible. In the end, I told Cobolli, it&#8217;s 5% tactics and 95% heart.<\/p><cite>Filippo Volandri<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBerrettini had a more relaxed match, securing the first set on his serve. In the second set, Collignon managed a break, but Berrettini responded and secured the victory on his first match point.\n\nThe Davis Cup Finals 8 represents the sixth edition of the reformed event, where the champion is defined at a neutral venue.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy returns to the Davis Cup final after Cobolli&#8217;s epic victory Italy, the defending champion, has secured its place in the Davis Cup final. Flavio Cobolli starred in a memorable match, overcoming Zizou Bergs of Belgium with scores of 6-3, 6-7 (5), 7-6 (15). The match, full of drama, saw Cobolli save seven match points [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[8297,10527,512,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-87034","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\/87034","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=87034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}