Canada has officially punched their ticket for the Davis Cup Final 8 in November.<\/p>\n
Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime clinched Canada\u2019s spot in the year-end team tournament, storming back to defeat world No. 31 Arthur Rinderknech 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 Saturday to win the best-of-five second-round qualifier 3-1 against France at the Videotron Centre.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime hit a blistering 17 aces in the match, while committing just a single double fault across the two-hour, 21-minute match.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime won his tenth consecutive Davis Cup singles match, a streak dating back to September 2022. He also defeated Quentin Halys 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-3 on Friday and boasts a 15-5 career record at the Davis Cup.<\/p>\n
Rinderknech, meanwhile, dropped his second consecutive Davis Cup singles match this weekend after also losing to Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., 6-2, 7-5 on Friday. The 31-year-old dropped to 4-5 in singles play at the tournament.<\/p>\n
After dropping just two points through his opening four service games, Auger-Aliassime quickly found himself in trouble during the ninth game of the set.<\/p>\n
The world No. 5 fell behind 0-40 thanks to a handful of unforced errors, including his lone double fault of the match, to ultimately go down a break.<\/p>\n
Rinderknech would serve out the opener, making good on his second set point.<\/p>\n
The top-ranked Canadian had two break points of his own early in the second set, but was unable to convert on either.<\/p>\n
The set went to a tiebreaker, with Rinderknech taking the first three points and four of the first six. However, Auger-Aliassime battled back to win five of the next six to force a pivotal final set.<\/p>\n
Just like in the opening set, the ninth game of the frame proved pivotal. This time, however, it went Auger-Aliassime\u2019s way as the Canadian earned the crucial break, much to the delight of the raucous Quebec City faithful.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime would hold serve for the win and the tie moments later.<\/p>\n
Canada has reached the Davis Cup Finals for the sixth time in its history and for the first time in two years.<\/p>\n
For France, it marks another upsetting finish at the prestigious tournament. The ten-time champions failed to reach the Final 8 for the sixth time in the last seven years.<\/p>\n
It also marks their first Davis Cup loss to Canada in four matchups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada has officially punched their ticket for the Davis Cup Final 8 in November. Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime clinched…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-898318","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\/898318","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=898318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}