Davis Cup Final - Cobolli clinches cup, is he Italy’s next big star?
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.6 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Flavio Cobolli clinched a third successive Davis Cup for hosts Italy, and Catherine, David and Matt were in awe at his comeback win.
The young Italian came back from losing a first set 1-6 against Jaume Munar of Spain to win a thrilling three-setter in front of stadium-shaking crowd.
He was given the perfect platform by veteran Matteo Berrettini, who joined Cobolli in going unbeaten, meaning Italy’s doubles team were not even called into action once.
In the show, we ask what the future might hold for Cobolli - will he break the Top 10 in 2026? Plus, there’s chat about where the Davis Cup should go in the future, whether it should be played every other year instead of annually, and how this year’s event went overall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the tennis podcast coming to you live tonight on the final day of the tennis season in the aftermath of Italy retaining the Davis Cup. |
| 0:22.9 | We are all Kabbali guys now. |
| 0:25.6 | He was Italy's hero again. |
| 0:28.7 | Coming from a set in a breakdown to beat Jamah Muna and seal the Italian victory, |
| 0:33.7 | that was after Mateo Beretini comfortably wrapped up his win over Pablo Caronio Buster in the first rubber, |
| 0:40.2 | which was very much in keeping with the pattern of Italy's victories all week long in Bologna on their march to this third successive Davis Cup title. |
| 0:51.2 | Matt Roberts, how was it to be there? |
| 0:57.1 | It was pretty special, I have to say. |
| 1:10.9 | Who'd have thought, home and away, Davis Cup finals really work. And the, you know, the noise in that arena was absolutely spine tingling really. |
| 1:13.5 | I mean, just very, very special. |
| 1:17.4 | Beretini led them out as he has done all week. |
| 1:20.5 | And then it went a bit flat because Koboli was a bit flat to start with. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm sure we'll talk much more about that. |
| 1:30.7 | But then the crescendo and wall of noise as he was winning it was, yeah, yeah really really moving and i've just come from the two press conferences which were you know as different in vibes as as as you would expect |
| 1:37.2 | uh spain very much trying to take positives and i think there are a lot of positives for them to take |
| 1:41.9 | and italy i think you know several glasses of champagne down and giggly |
| 1:47.3 | and just having a great time, which is what you want from the final press conference of the year. |
| 1:55.1 | Yeah, for everyone that's been waiting for us since 8pm to go live, |
| 1:59.4 | those Italian glasses of champagne are the reason we |
| 2:02.2 | weren't live at 8pm. We can allow that. David, how does it feel to be the guy that is |
| 2:11.3 | always believed in Flavio Ciboli? Yeah, and I'm allowed to claim credit for the pre-Davis Cup show when I said that Italy might well win it even without Sinner and Mazzetti. |
| 2:24.5 | Or should we all remember actually that a day later when I studied it all, I said Chequie would win. |
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