John McEnroe has questioned Flavio Cobolli\u2019s decision to hold a joint-press conference with Matteo Analdi following the latter\u2019s withdrawal ahead of their French Open semi-final match.<\/p>\n
Shortly before the Italians were due to take to Court Philippe-Chatrier, Arnaldi announced that he would not be able to play as he had been sick since Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The unseeded Arnaldi, who spent 19 hours and 42 minutes on court to reach the last four, spoke to the media<\/a> and he was joined by good friend Cobolli, who sat at the far end of the desk.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s difficult to be here. It\u2019s not what I wanted to do, but last night I started to feel not very well,\u201d Arnaldi explained. \u201cYesterday I was feeling okay. I came here to practise. I did everything I had to do, and I was feeling fine.<\/p>\n \u201cThen I had dinner. I started to feel so-so with my stomach. I was, like, \u2018Alright, just didn\u2019t digest very well\u2019. But then I woke up at 1 am, and I started vomiting, and I wasn\u2019t feeling the best.\u201d<\/p>\n Alexander Zverev gives his opinion on Matteo Arnaldi withdrawing from the Roland Garros semi-finals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev slammed for \u2018lack of respect\u2019 after making the Roland Garros final<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The 10th-seeded Cobolli<\/a> shared his compatriot\u2019s pain as he paid tribute to the 25-year-old.<\/p>\n \u201cMatteo is a big inspiration for all of us,\u201d the 10th seed said. \u201cHe\u2019s an amazing player and an amazing professional. I think the best person outside the court for how he makes things, preparation of the match, focus, cooldown. He\u2019s one of the best on the Tour, for sure.<\/p>\n \u201cHe deserves the result this week. He got injured last season and the beginning of this one. We all knew about his level. Everyone expects this result from him. His tennis is amazing. I wish him all the best for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n Although there were quite a few metres between the pair during the press conference, tennis great McEnroe believes Cobolli took an unnecessary risk with the French Open final against Alexander Zverev just a couple of days away.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Arnaldi is here and doing a press conference, why is Cobolli so close to him? If he is sick and has a virus you wouldn\u2019t want to catch it,\u201d he told TNT Sports and Eurosport<\/a>.<\/p>\n Although Arnaldi insisted that he was feeling fine in terms of his fitness despite spending nearly a full day on court over the fortnight, McEnroe believes it contributed to him falling ill.<\/p>\n The former world No 1 added: \u201cIt sucks, that\u2019s the bottom line.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m no doctor but I think it caught up with him. The guy had played more tennis to get to the semis than anyone had ever played in this event. Combine that with some nerves and some bad luck, or the wrong food.<\/p>\n \u201cI was amazed that Arnaldi bounced back as well as he did after the [Frances] Tiafoe match to be honest. He played five-and-a-half hours. He played a couple of marathon matches.\u201d<\/p>\n *John McEnroe is part of TNT Sports\u2019 Roland-Garros coverage*<\/strong><\/p>\n *Every match of Roland-Garros is live across TNT Sports and HBO Max*<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The post John McEnroe stunned by Flavio Cobolli decision ahead of French Open final against<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" John McEnroe has questioned Flavio Cobolli\u2019s decision to hold a joint-press conference with Matteo Analdi following the latter\u2019s withdrawal ahead of their French Open semi-final match. Shortly before the Italians were due to take to Court Philippe-Chatrier, Arnaldi announced that he would not be able to play as he had been sick since Thursday afternoon. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}French Open News<\/h2>\n