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Andre Agassi & TNT Crew Preview Zverev-Cobolli Final _ Roland-Garros 2026 · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Arnaldi has withdrawn. It is a walkover Kaboli to the finals.
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  Speaker 1: Our first walkover at this stage of a major in
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  Speaker 1: four years. Twenty twenty two Wimbledon, Rapha pulled out curios.
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  Speaker 1: He made it to his first final because of that.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's happening with Koboli, his first major final appearance
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  Speaker 1: because of walkover taking on Sasha Zvera. For Kaboli, his
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  Speaker 1: previous best result in a major last year a quarter
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  Speaker 1: final at Wimbledon. And here is the tale of the tape.
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  Speaker 1: Head to head, Zverev leads this one three to one.
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  Speaker 1: This will also be the first time that Zverev is
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  Speaker 1: favored in a major final in his fourth appearance. Many
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  Speaker 1: people believe he was the favorite against Team.
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  Speaker 2: He was not.
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  Speaker 1: Team was the favorite. This will be the first time
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  Speaker 1: Sasha is favored in a major title. And you can
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  Speaker 1: see the disparity those five years. Sasha has put up
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  Speaker 1: some numbers. The only Kaboli win actually this year in
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  Speaker 1: Munich three and three. Agacy. As you start now focusing
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  Speaker 1: on the final, where does your mind go.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it goes to that stat I saw there about
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  Speaker 3: six weeks ago, Kabole finding way over that finish line
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  Speaker 3: uneventfully against them. I mean, if there's anything that can
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  Speaker 3: put doubt in somebody's mind, you know, it's it's the
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  Speaker 3: fact that you lost to this person last time you
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  Speaker 3: played on the same surface. I mean, granted Munich a
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  Speaker 3: little quicker, it's going to be a little harder to
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  Speaker 3: dictate against Sasha in the slower, heavier conditions. But obviously
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  Speaker 3: Kavoli has has has a firepower to do it, he
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  Speaker 3: has the movement to do it. I think he's has
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  Speaker 3: a chance at at making this one hell of a final.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's certainly going to make Zurev feel like
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  Speaker 3: he has to earn it.
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  Speaker 1: This is undoubtedly his surface as well. Since the start
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  Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty five season, Kabali is twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: and ten on clay, and that includes titles in Bucharest
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  Speaker 1: and in Humble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, they've played twice actually in the last six weeks,
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  Speaker 2: so they're familiar with each other. One Kaboli's way one
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  Speaker 2: win zvere Weight. Both have been lopsided scores. Kaboli beat
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  Speaker 2: him three and three, then Zverev has beat him one
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  Speaker 2: and four. But that one win, like Andres saying, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to give Koboli a little bit of confidence. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to put a little bit of doubt in the
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  Speaker 2: mind as Zverev, and I think for Koboli, he did
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  Speaker 2: play a big serving faa in the previous round. He's
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  Speaker 2: now going to go up against a better serve probably
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  Speaker 2: in Zverevan. Zverev's obviously got better ground stokes. He's he's
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  Speaker 2: a better player than Felix, but he at least got
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  Speaker 2: a little look at that at that serve coming from
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's about six feet six in the last round.
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  Speaker 4: Most importantly with this matchup, and for tennis fans worldwide,
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  Speaker 4: it's both these players have an absolutely full tank of
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  Speaker 4: gas going into this final. Koboli has not spent much
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  Speaker 4: time on court, neither has Zaverev, so these guys are
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  Speaker 4: going to be one hundred percent ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Should make for some good.
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  Speaker 5: Tennis, I think for I think for Koboli this is huge. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: beating Zvera does his first Grand Slam finals is a
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  Speaker 5: big stage for him. He got nervous earlier on in
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  Speaker 5: the tournament, was like, oh my gosh, I had to
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  Speaker 5: finish off this match. I you know, had to relief
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  Speaker 5: myself almost But going into a match where you've beaten
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  Speaker 5: the player before and it's recent and on clay. I
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  Speaker 5: think that's going to give some commness to him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 5: when the stake's good high you get closer to the
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  Speaker 5: finish line, he's going to feel nervous if he gets there.
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  Speaker 5: But you've got to think that that gives him the
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  Speaker 5: belief going into the match and he's going to come
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  Speaker 5: out firing early on.
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  Speaker 6: This is the final that I that we would have
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  Speaker 6: anticipated hope for with it the players that we had left,
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  Speaker 6: and I think it'll be a great match and it's
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  Speaker 6: Zervs to lose. At this point. The ball is on
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  Speaker 6: his racket to match, the championship is on his racket.
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  Speaker 6: It's just if he can execute, if he can hold
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  Speaker 6: his nerve, if he can figure out how to get
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  Speaker 6: through that last little bit. Obviously, Kaboli has everything to
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  Speaker 6: play for. He did just beat him, so it could
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  Speaker 6: be interesting. But if Kabola can get into the match
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  Speaker 6: enough to frustrate Shastra enough just to make enough balls. Again,
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  Speaker 6: we don't know what the win will be like, what
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  Speaker 6: the temperature will be like, we don't know any of
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  Speaker 6: those variables. But as long as Kabola can get into
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  Speaker 6: the match, it'll I think it'll be a really nice one.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's also fair to say that in tennis
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  Speaker 3: it's it's better to have the wrong game plan with
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  Speaker 3: total conviction and the right game plan that you're questioning.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think a boy's going to go out
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  Speaker 3: in that court and be questioning what it is he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be trying to do. He's gonna be playing
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  Speaker 3: with total conviction. I mean, the guy moves well enough
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  Speaker 3: to defend to get the ball back to make Zerevv
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of good shots to win a point.
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  Speaker 3: He can push him around. If Zurev starts leaving that
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  Speaker 3: forehand a little nervous and sitting up. He likes to
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  Speaker 3: play like a Spanish player. He's going to try to
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  Speaker 3: dictate with fourhands, but don't underestimate his back end. He
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  Speaker 3: can stay back in the back end with the rev
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  Speaker 3: and wait to go to his forehand to get the
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  Speaker 3: shot he wants. I think we're going to see some
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  Speaker 3: fun tenants.
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  Speaker 1: If I would have told you two weeks ago that
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  Speaker 1: two top ten seeds would make the final on the
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  Speaker 1: men's side, you go makes sense. Normal tournament. It has
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  Speaker 1: been anything but that five hour marathons, cramping on the court,
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  Speaker 1: walkovers in the semifinal. This has been a rolling Garros.
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  Speaker 1: To remember, we have a qualifier playing in the women's
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  Speaker 1: final tomorrow. We haven't seen that in years, up against
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  Speaker 1: a prodigy in Mira Andrieva. It has been a wild
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  Speaker 1: two weeks and here we are on the doorstep of
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  Speaker 1: the finals. It is officially going to be Zverev and
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  Speaker 1: Kabali after the surprise eyes withdrawal from Matteo Arnaldi. You're
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  Speaker 1: not going to have a second match tonight, but we
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  Speaker 1: are going to have a final which Sasha Zverev could
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  Speaker 1: finally lift the trophy.