The two “enemies” friends for a day: “But I didn’t want to end like this”
(Marco Calabresi) Lorenzo and Flavio They have known each other for a lifetime, from Before they became museums and cobollies. Nobody, starting from the winner of Italian derby in the Big Applewould have liked it to end like this. And instead, after two games of the third set, Flavio headed towards the net, he has embraced the friend Since the times of the Lemon Bowl: “I didn’t even take it anymore to hold the racket in hand”.
Cobolli had also tried to wear the sleeve on the right arm as Jannik Sinner has been doing for some time, to try to fight the rigidity due to ten sets and two Marathon in the first two rounds against Passaro and Brooksby. But it was immediately understood that Cobolli had finished gasoline, and a certain point Stefano made the dad more than the coach: “If you got to the limit, you don’t need to be the hero”. Flavio hates retreat, but he also had to do it in order not to prejudice the next few weeks and the next tournaments.
They were Heat one next to the otherthen they had to divide. Musetti raised the level in the middle of the first sethad a first set point on the Cobolli service but closed immediately afterwards, taking the break even at the opening of the second set. In the fourth game of the second partial the first jolt of the Roman match born in Florence: he had two break balls, Musetti came out very well and immediately afterwards he scored another extension (4-1) with Cobolli who asked for the first intervention of the physiotherapist. It got up, has Removed the service in Musetti to zero But he retired him immediately after. Another arm massageanother illusion that the game could start: the game that closed the set was the most fought of the game, Lorenzo enhanced and that point was understood that it was no longer the case to move forward. Match finished on 6-3 6-2 2-0 and first eighth of his career final at the US Open for Musettito which a tutorial of his hand was asked during the interview.
“I didn’t want to finish like this – he admitted -. Flavio is the best friend in the circuit, we have known each other since we are nine years old and spent many hours inside and off the pitch. I ask the public to make him an applause: in the second set I realized that he had problemsI wish him the best for the rest of the season ». Then the analysis of the game until it was: “I played a solid match, the strategy was to dictate the rhythms of the exchange and be aggressive with the right”. In the round of 16, for Museo, one between Munar and Bergs; Then, perhaps, Sinner.
