Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the semifinals of the European Open tennis tournament with a 6-2, 7-6 (6) win over American qualifier Eliot Spizzirri on Friday in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime clinched the second-set tiebreaker with his 11th ace of the match.<\/p>\n
The second-seeded Canadian cruised through the first set, breaking Spizzirri’s serve twice while not facing break point himself.<\/p>\n
Spizzirri proved a much tougher opponent in the second set and had two set points in Game 12 before Auger-Aliassime completed the hold with an ace and tied the frame 6-6.<\/p>\n
The American then led the tiebreak 5-3, but Auger-Aliassime won four of the next five points.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old Auger-Aliassime, who entered the ATP 250 tournament ranked 13th in the world, will face either fourth seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain or Belgian wild-card Raphael Collignon in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Also Friday, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., faces Sweden’s Elias Ymer in the quarterfinals of the Stockholm Open.<\/p>\n
At the Japan Women’s Open in Osaka, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., was set to face Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in the semifinals on Saturday morning (Friday night in Eastern Time).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the semifinals of the European Open tennis tournament with a 6-2, 7-6 (6)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-220494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220494","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=220494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}