{"id":112558,"date":"2025-09-01T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112558\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:41:07","slug":"felix-auger-aliassime-advances-to-u-s-open-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/112558\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime advances to U.S. Open quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Felix Auger-Aliassime, of Canada, celebrates after winning a match against Andrey Rublev, of Russia, during the fourth round of the US Open on Monday in New York.Kirsty Wigglesworth\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime cruised into the quarter-finals of the U.S. Open with a 7-5, 6-4, 6-3 win over 15th-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia on Monday.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the furthest Auger-Aliassime, the 25th seed, has made it in a Grand Slam event since he made the quarter-finals at the 2022 Australian Open. His best outing at a Grand Slam was a semi-final appearance at the 2021 U.S. Open. <\/p>\n

The Montreal native will next face No. 8 seed Alex de Minaur of Australia for a chance at the semif-inals.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime fired 13 aces to just four double faults in the two-hour, 16-minute match. He also broke on four his seven chances and had 42 winners to Rublev\u2019s 22. <\/p>\n

Later Monday, third-seeded duo Gabriela Dabrowski, from Ottawa and New Zealand\u2019s Erin Routliffe take on 13th seed Cristina Bucas of Spain and Nicole Melichar-Martinez of the United States in the round of 16 in women\u2019s doubles play.<\/p>\n

Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., and tennis legend Venus Williams are also set to face China\u2019s Zhang Shuai and Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Alexandrova.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Felix Auger-Aliassime, of Canada, celebrates after winning a match against Andrey Rublev, of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-112558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}