Cobolli holds off dogged Svajda to book spot in French Open's final eight

[p]At No.10, the Italian goes into the last eight as the third-highest remaining men's seed. It will be the 24-year-old's second Grand Slam quarter-final. He reached the last eight at Wimbledon last season.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/cobolli-flavio/zDtaCcPe/"]Cobolli[/a] will face either fourth-seeded Canadian [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/auger-aliassime-felix/CzXh4LAb/"]Felix Auger-Aliassime[/a] or unseeded Chilean [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/tabilo-alejandro/YgVnM5vO/"]Alejandro Tabilo[/a].[/p][embed guid="718ca47c-4316-4e42-9095-8090a02a3b8f" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTBKsRqQGUY&pp=0gcJCSALAYcqIYzv" social-type="youtube" /][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/tennis/cobolli-f-zDtaCcPe/svajda-z-vynGYhMa/?mid=pWVT5bC5"]Cobolli raced through the first two sets[/a] in a total of one hour 25 minutes, breaking twice in each.[/p][p]In the third, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/svajda-zachary/vynGYhMa/"]Svajda[/a] started to put up some resistance and Cobolli began to wobble.[/p][p]Twice the 23-year-old American held serve to save the match and then took the tiebreak as Cobolli's accuracy deserted him.[/p][p]In the fourth, Cobolli galloped to a 4-0 lead. From 5-1 up he could not finish Zvajda off, wasting a match point at 5-4.[/p][image alt="Key match stats" id="02efe44e-8789-440c-92df-0bd5e9209ddd" credit-line="Flashscore" guid="21865b91-a0c7-4c34-9d5c-8e6fa0b611c0" original-width="1080" original-height="1080" /][p]The Italian found just enough composure to win a tiebreak in which both players showed their nerves. Cobolli won in three hours, 21 minutes.[/p][p][b]"The match is never done and today I almost sh*t in my pants," [/b]said Cobolli. [b]"I'm happy but I'm still nervous."[/b][/p][p]American world number 85 Svajda had only won two Grand Slam matches before his surprising run to the fourth round at Roland Garros.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/tennis/atp-singles/french-open/"]Follow the men's side at Roland Garros here.[/a][/b][/p]