Flavio Cobolli on longtime partner Matilde Galli: ‘My best dream is watching her happy’ | ATP Tour

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Cobolli on longtime partner Galli: ‘My best dream is watching her joyful’

Italian star Cobolli displays on his girlfriend’s significance

April 30, 2026

When Flavio Cobolli steps on courtroom Thursday for his Mutua Madrid Open quarter-final in opposition to second seed Alexander Zverevthe Italian is aware of he may have greater than his tennis staff in his nook.

The 23-year-old’s longtime partner, Matilde Galli, has performed a vital position in Cobolli’s rise on the ATP Tour.

“I knew her when I was no one,” Cobolli informed 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-something in the world, and we’re still together. So I think we found something that, of course, is working.”

Cobolli first met his partner at his best pal’s celebration — Galli was there together with his best pal’s sister. That proved a pivotal second of their lives.

Galli by no means misses a match Cobolli performs, he mentioned, explaining that she’s going to even watch him compete in the course of the evening. However, they by no means communicate in regards to the particulars of the game.

Instead, the companions function supporters for each other. Cobolli is a star on the ATP Tour, and Galli is learning to change into a sanitary director for a hospital.

“My best dream is watching her happy in what she does,” Cobolli mentioned. “Your family is very important because we spend our time really well, we do many things that we normally cannot do. So my dream is to have more time with her and to see her happy in whatever she does.”

It is necessary to the No. 13 participant within the PIF ATP Rankings to be there for Galli the identical means she is for him. The three-time ATP Tour title listing enjoys being a useful resource every time she wants one.

“When she’s nervous [studying for an exam]I try to be kind to her and help make her life easier. But it’s not easy when you’re always on the Tour, and you have pressure everywhere and have another pressure at home. It’s not easy,” Cobolli said. “But I think we are doing well. “We have a great relationship.”

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While some ATP gamers journey with their companions, Galli is usually residence to focus on his training. So discovering a approach to maintain in constant contact has confirmed necessary.

“I think we found the rhythm,” Cobolli mentioned. “But of course, I want to see her more than I see her now and to see her more at the tournaments with me. But I think the first goal for her is to finish studying and then we’ll see after college if she can eat more than she does now.”

That doesn’t suggest Galli is by no means on the highway. Cobolli misplaced 4 of his first 5 matches this season, after which he requested his girlfriend to spend a while with him on the ATP Tour. That proved useful, as a result of Cobolli then reached the semi-finals in Delray Beach and gained the ATP 500 occasion in Acapulco to beat his hunch and discover a number of the best type of his profession.

“I love her a lot, and I think she also loves me,” Cobolli mentioned, cracking a smile. “We are very younger, however we have already got an ideal expertise with ourselves and our lives to say that she’s the one which I wish 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].”

On the tennis courtroom, Cobolli has his teaching staff in his field to assist information him by way of troublesome moments. Ultimately, although, it is simply him and his opponent on the courtroom. With that mentioned, inside and outdoors competitors, Galli is at all times by his facet — bodily, or in spirit.

“When you can count on someone that loves you a lot, that has been important for us because you have someone on your shoulder,” Cobolli mentioned. “Hopefully we can stay together for the rest of our lives.”