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>Cobolli will face either fourth-seeded Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime or unseeded Chilean Alejandro Tabilo.</p><p>Cobolli raced through the first two sets in a total of one hour 25 minutes, breaking twice in each.</p><p>In the third, Svajda 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><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><strong>"The match is never done and today I almost sh*t in my pants," </strong>said Cobolli. <strong>"I'm happy but I'm still nervous."</strong></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><strong>Follow the men's side at Roland Garros here.</strong></p>