Cobolli, sixth Italian in history to qualify for the ATP Finals

With the defeat of the Spanish Rafa Jodar in view of Casper Ruud in he Paris Masters 1,000, that complicated their direct options to go to the ATP Finals, was classified mathematically Flavio Cobolli, he sixth italian who gets it in the individual modality in the history of the competition.

He roman tennis player, 24 years old, will debut in the Masters Tournament, that brings together the eight best tennis players of the course and that will be celebrated in Turin (Italy) from November 15 to 22, as the fifth place, after Alexander Zverev, Carlos Alcaraz, Ben Shelton and Daniil Medvedev.

It will also be the unique italian of the eight classified after the absence of Jannik Sinner due to injury.

At this time they are also within the ATP Finals Arthur Fils, Frances Tiafoe and Jodar, but from behind they still maintain their options Alex de Minaur -at 64 points-, Novak Djokovic, Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul.

Cobolli, that did not play the Parisian tournament due to a muscular problem, he thus joins the five tennis players that they achieved it before in the individual mode: Hadrian Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Matteo Berrettini, Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti.

Cobolli is added in the same way to the Italians Simone Bolelli, Fabio Fognini and Andrea Vavassori, If you take into account the doubles modality.

He tennis player will have eleven days to recover from his physical problems, that led him to abandon the Vienna ATP 500 during his confrontation with Berrettini.

The defeat of Jódar by 6-3 and 6-4 against the norwegian Casper Ruud in Paris, he last tournament that granted valid points for the Turin classification, assured him the place and complicated the direct entry of Spanish, who keeps waiting for what make their rivals.

“Magical nights”, the transalpine athlete published on Instagram after arithmetically certify the square, with an image that includes the legendary song by Antonello Venditti titled ‘Torino’, a portrait published in 1982 from the city that this year hosts the tournament.

Cobolli signed in 2026 the best season of his career. In March he conquered Acapulco he third ATP title of his career and, later, achieved the final in Munich and Roland Garros, where he fell before Alexander Zverev.

It also reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals already at Cincinnati Masters 1000 semifinals. These results allowed him to achieve the sixth place in the world ranking, the best of his career.