Wimbledon: Cobolli beats de Minaur, into qtrs

Ninth seed Flavio Cobolli of Italy

beat Australian fifth seed Alex de Minaur in the fourth round of

Wimbledon Monday to qualify for the queter-finals.

The 24-year-old Roman, who lost in the French Open final to

world number 2 Sacha Zverev of Germany, beat the Aussie in

straight sets, 7-5, 7-6, 6-3.

"I'm so happy and proud of myself, it was so hot," he told the

BBC.

"I have a lot of respect for (de Minaur), I love him but don't

love playing him.

"we were lucky to finish with just two (heat) stoppages".

Now, he said he was going to keep eating ice cream and "my Dad's

gonna cook pasta with tomato and onions, and we'll watch

Spain-Portugal"

Cobolli said he and his father still had to find a house for the

tournament.

Cobolli is into the quarters for the second year running.

He will play the winner of Gregor Dimitrov(Bulgaria)-Arthur Fery

(GB).

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