Flavio Cobolli loved an excellent experience in 2025, cracking the top-20 and lifting two ATP trophies.
Now, the Italian shares the apply courtroom with world no. 1 Carlos Alcaraz in Murcia forward of 2026.
Alcaraz ya entrena sin la presencia de Ferrero
🎾 El tenista español se ha ejercitado este jueves junto a Flavio Cobolli en Murcia
👀 Samu López, su nuevo entrenador, ha supervisado de cerca la sesión. pic.twitter.com/k0OjHOIQ2p
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World no. 17 is getting a useful style of life on the very prime of the game after sharing the courtroom with the world's most interesting participant. Like in 2023, Carlos and Flavio met in Murcia to coach collectively and form up their strokes forward of the brand new season.
The 2 younger weapons have been mixing enjoyable with severe hitting, and the expertise has left a robust impression on the Italian. Cobolli has seen a uncommon high quality that separates Alcaraz from everybody else.
The depth, the rhythm and fixed variation make classes really feel lighter, sharper and way more partaking that commonplace apply days with different gamers. In sunny Murcia, the tempo by no means drops, and the power by no means fades.
Additionally, the work feels purposeful from the primary ball to the final, and Flavio enjoys that. He’s absorbing data just by sharing the courtroom with the six-time Main winner.
Flavio Cobolli, Vienna 2025© Stream screenshot
The training curve is fixed – whether or not via direct recommendation or by observing how Alcaraz strikes and constructs factors. These are beneficial classes you can’t get anyplace else.
With Carlos round, each rally carries a lesson, and each trade displays the habits of a participant who units the benchmark for the trendy recreation. The Spaniard is constructing his recreation for an additional demanding season.
He’ll begin it with out Juan Carlos Ferrero in his field, and we’ll see how he’ll deal with that truth in Melbourne. Earlier than that, he’s having fun with each minute of the courtroom together with his good pal.
"Two hours of coaching with Carlos really feel like 20 minutes. Whenever you practice with another participant, it appears like two hours. Carlos is clearly giving me a variety of necessary recommendation, and even when he doesn’t inform me, I be taught from our classes," Flavio Cobolli mentioned.
