At almost the exact time Flavio Cobolli and Matteo Arnaldi had been scheduled to take to Court Philippe-Chatrier on Friday and contest the match of their lives, they could instead be located in the bowels of the stadium, their faces a picture of misery inside the interview room at Roland Garros.
If not for the seriousness of the situation, with Arnaldi forced to withdraw from his first grand slam semi-final due to a virus, it would have been a comical sight. Somebody behind the scenes was not exactly of sound mind when they decided it was a good idea for Cobolli to sit next to an individual with a viral illness two days before his first grand slam final.
