Flavio Cobolli Praised Girlfriend Matilde Galli Amid French Open

Young Italian tennis star Flavio Cobolli praised girlfriend Matilde Galli ahead of the French Open.

“I knew her when I was no one,” Cobolli told ATPTour.com. “I was outside of this Tour, and I grew up completely here. I met her when I was 18, I was one-thousand-and-something in the world, and we’re still together. So I think we found something that, of course, is working.”

While Galli offers plenty of support, she's in college studying to become a sanitary director for a hospital. Given her busy schedule of school work, she's not always on hand to watch his tournaments, which may have impacted his play earlier this season.

Cobolli Made Request of Matilde Galli

Cobolli lost four of his first five matches this season, after which he asked his girlfriend to spend some time with him on the ATP Tour. Not long later, he reached the semi-finals in Delray Beach and won the ATP 500 event in Acapulco to overcome his slump and find some of the best form of his career.

“I love her a lot, and I think she also loves me,” Cobolli said, cracking a smile. “We are very young, but we already have a great experience with ourselves and our lives to say that she's the one that I want to have for all my life.

“It is tough because we don't see each other a lot during the year because she's studying and I do this life [as a tennis player]. It's tough because you always want to see her during the year, but it's not possible. And we always try to find a way to be together [even when we are apart].”

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Cobolli now finds himself in the semifinal of the French Open, his deepest run in a grand slam of his career.

He faces off against countryman Matteo Arnaldi in a match scheduled for 1 p.m. ET on truTV, TNT and Max.

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