{"id":197529,"date":"2025-10-08T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197529\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:48:07","slug":"canadas-auger-aliassime-powers-past-musetti-to-reach-shanghai-masters-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197529\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Auger-Aliassime powers past Musetti to reach Shanghai Masters quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SHANGHAI \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Italy\u2019s Lorenzo Musetti on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 12th-seeded Montreal native closed out the match with consecutive aces after an hour and 25 minutes on the hard court. The victory evened his career record against Musetti at four wins each and ended the Italian\u2019s two-match run, which included wins at the 2024 Paris Olympics and this year\u2019s Miami Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, 25, will face France\u2019s Arthur Rinderknech in the quarters. Rinderknech defeated 15th-seeded Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic 6-3, 7-6 (5). The Canadian has won both of their previous meetings, earning victories earlier this season in Cincinnati and Mallorca.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime finished with six aces to Musetti\u2019s three, committed one double fault and won 76 per cent of his first-serve points compared with 59 per cent for Musetti. He converted three of six break chances and didn\u2019t drop serve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He\u2019s the last Canadian remaining in Shanghai after Montreal\u2019s Gabriel Diallo fell 6-3, 5-7, 6-7 (8) to Belgium\u2019s Zizou Bergs in the Round of 16 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Elsewhere, seventh-seeded Alex De Minaur of Australia moved on with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Portugal\u2019s Nuno Borges. He\u2019ll face either American Learner Tien or Russia\u2019s Daniil Medvedev in the next round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SHANGHAI \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Shanghai Masters with a 6-4, 6-2 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-197529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197529","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=197529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}