Flavio Cobolli 2025 in Review: First Grand Slam Quarterfinal, First Career Titles, Highest ATP Ranking

First ATP 500 title

A huge highlight of Cobolli’s year was his run to the title in Hamburg the week before Roland Garros; he played great tennis all week, got revenge on Tomas Etcheverry in the semifinals for his first round loss in the Australian Open, and routined Andrey Rublev in the final. He carried his good level of play into Roland Garros, but world #3 Alexander Zverev proved too much for him in the third round.

First Grand Slam quarterfinal

After losing to Zverev again in the Halle quarterfinals, there were no great expectations of Cobolli at Wimbledon, but he played great tennis and managed to reach his first ever Grand Slam second week without dropping a single set and routining Miami champion Jakub Mensik on the way. He then went one better, beating former finalist Marin Cilic in five sets to set up a quarterfinal clash with Novak Djokovic. He won the first set and put up some very good resistence in general, but his run eventually ended in 4 sets at the hands of the Serb. It was still a fantastic Slam run that saw him break into the top 20 for the first time in his career.

A somewhat disappointing second half

After a fantastic first half of the season, Cobolli really struggled to win matches in the second half of the season. His best level and run probably came at the Canada Masters, where he served for the match against eventual champion Ben Shelton in the last 16. After seeing Shelton going on to win the title, his inability to close out that match will surely have been quite frustrating for the Italian. After this tournament he didn’t have another strong run in the entire year but still managed to finish the year a very respectable #22.

Davis Cup hero

Despite a lackluster second half of the season, it ended in glory for Cobolli with two epic wins to secure the Davis Cup title for Italy. He clinched victory in the semifinals with an epic, 3+ hour, 17-15 third set tiebreak win over Zizou Bergs, after saving seven match points in that deciding tiebreak. He followed it up two days later by clinching the title for Italy with another epic win over Jaume Munar after being down a set and a break.

These epic victories will surely give Cobolli a lot of confidence ahead of what he hopes is an even better 2026. He certainly has the ability to continue improving and climbing up the rankings.