FLAVIO COBOLLI wasted no time in spending the £480,000 he banked by reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals.
The Italian was stunned 6-4 7-6 6-0 by British wildcard Arthur Fery on Centre Court yesterday.
Flavio Cobolli wasted no time in heading home after losing in the Wimbledon quarter-final Credit: Shutterstock Editorial
Arthur Fery knocked him out to progress to the semi-final Credit: Getty
A devastated Cobolli was in no mood to hang around. making his way to his post-match press conference around an hour after being beaten.
The world No10 then revealed he had already booked the next flight home to Rome.
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Cobolli said: “Maybe today I don’t sleep really well, also because I have a flight very early. I already booked it.
“I want to go home straight and as fast as possible.
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Cobolli added that he is planning to take a few days off with his girlfriend Matilde Galli to help him “forget about this loss”.
Though getting over the defeat will not be easy, with the French Open runner-up believing it was a huge missed opportunity.
Cobolli, who admitted to underestimating Fery, said: “Playing a quarter-final against a guy that already played marathon match, many hours on court, ranking lower than me, I felt like it was a chance to have a good day for me.
“Maybe, like my team says, I wasn’t so humble since the first point.
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“I felt that it wasn’t my day. But still quarter-final in a Grand Slam, I’m still happy.”
Cobolli heads to Italy just a couple of days after being left homeless and without accommodation for the tournament.
He admitted after knocking out Alex de Minaur in the last-16 on Monday that he needed a new place to stay with nowhere booked for the second week of Wimbledon as he expected to have already lost.
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