{"id":200200,"date":"2025-06-20T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200200\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T15:34:12","slug":"alexander-zverev-overcomes-flavio-cobolli-for-halle-sf-spot-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/200200\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Zverev overcomes Flavio Cobolli for Halle SF spot | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Halle
\n Zverev overcomes brief \u2018out-of-nowhere\u2019 illness, Cobolli for Halle SF spot<\/p>\n

Home favourite will play Medvedev, who downs Michelsen<\/p>\n

June 20, 2025<\/p>\n

Carmen Jaspersen\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev sinks Flavio Cobolli in straight sets on Friday at the Terra Wortmann Open.
\n By Andy West<\/p>\n

Under the weather early, but into the Terra Wortmann Open semi-finals on time nonetheless. <\/p>\n

Alexander Zverev endured a rough start to his quarter-final clash with Flavio Cobolli on Friday at the grass ATP 500 in Halle, before the home favourite returned to seal a 6-4, 7-6(6) victory. Zverev had to rush from the court for an impromptu toilet break due to illness at 1-0, 40\/40 in the first set, but later completed a one-hour, 41-minute triumph at OWL Arena. <\/p>\n

\u201cI felt fine before the match, and then out of nowhere I felt really, really bad and felt ill,\u201d explained Zverev. \u201cI went to throw up, and then 15 minutes later I felt okay again. So I don\u2019t know what it was. I\u2019ve never experienced that before, to be honest. Hopefully I will be fine the next couple of hours, when the adrenalin settles. After that, I think it was a pretty good match.\u201d <\/p>\n

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All eyes on AZ \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n

[2] @AlexZverev<\/a> defies Cobolli 6-4, 7-6(6) to book a 5th Halle semi-final @ATPHalle<\/a> | #ATPHalle<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4M9OjTBL7d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Zverev let out a burst of emotion after firing a big first serve, which Cobolli was unable to return, to clinch his win in the second-set tie-break. The second seed is now 21-8 in Halle, where he reached the championship match in 2016 and 2017, while has now become just the fifth player to reach five or more semi-finals at the event after former champions Roger Federer, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Philipp Kohlschreiber and Tommy Haas. <\/p>\n

In a rematch of their Roland Garros third-round meeting just less than three weeks ago, Zverev earned another straight-sets victory against Cobolli with an impressive serving performance in Halle. The second seed won 81 per cent (46\/57) of points behind his first serve, according to Infosys ATP Stats, while he also crucially saved all six break points he faced by rallying from 0\/40 in both the second and fourth games of the match. <\/p>\n

A finalist in Stuttgart last week, Zverev will now aim to earn back-to-back championship-match appearances on grass when he faces one of his oldest rivals in the semi-finals: Daniil Medvedev. <\/p>\n

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Medvedev earlier overcame Alex Michelsen 6-4, 6-3 to reach his third tour-level semi-final of the season. The 29-year-old, who is guaranteed to return to the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings on Monday after spending six weeks as No. 11, leads Zverev 12-7 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s the guy I played the most in my career, so I\u2019m looking forward to it,\u201d said Zverev ahead of his first tour-level meeting with Medvedev since the 2024 Australian Open semi-finals. \u201cA lot of things happened in the past 18 months. Definitely he\u2019s one of the toughest opponents in my career. It\u2019s going to be a great match and I\u2019m really looking forward to facing him.\u201d <\/p>\n

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