{"id":878898,"date":"2026-09-03T21:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878898\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:16:09","slug":"us-open-felix-auger-aliassime-beaten-by-karen-khachanov-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/878898\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Felix Auger-Aliassime beaten by Karen Khachanov in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime has been knocked out by Russian Karen Khachanov in the second round of the US Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A two-time finalist at the tournament, the Canadian was beaten 6-7 (5-7) 6-3 6-2 6-2 by the unseeded Russian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auger-Aliassime managed to fend off his opponent to edge the first set in the tie-break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a mixture of too many unforced errors, coupled with some brilliant winners down the line from Khachanov, sent the 26-year-old crashing out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His exit followed that of 24-time Grand Slam champion and fourth seed Novak Djokovic in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Auger-Aliassime reached the quarter-finals of this year&#8217;s Wimbledon and French Open, but withdrew from the Rogers Cup in Montreal in August with a back injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Maybe he had some physical issues,&#8221; said Khachanov, 30. &#8220;It&#8217;s part of our sport, it&#8217;s part of tennis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m super happy to get this win.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Third seed Felix Auger-Aliassime has been knocked out by Russian Karen Khachanov in the second round of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-878898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}