{"id":225250,"date":"2025-10-19T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225250\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T19:41:07","slug":"canadas-felix-auger-aliassime-captures-european-open-title-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225250\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime captures European Open title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BRUSSELS \u2014 Montreal\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime has added another title to his name, winning the European Open in Belgium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Canadian topped Jiri Lehecka of Czechia 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 6-2 to win the hard-court ATP 250 tournament. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, seeded No. 2 at the tournament, fired 17 aces across the two-hour, 34-minute match and won 79 per cent of his first-serve points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native remained in control despite dropping the second set, converting two of his six break-point chances across the match and not allowing Lechecka a break-point opportunity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victory marks Auger-Aliassime\u2019s eighth career title and his third of the year, coming after he started off 2025 with wins at Montpellier, France, and Adelaide, Australia, in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime is currently ranked 13th in the world, down from the No. 6 spot he held in November 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 19, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS \u2014 Montreal\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime has added another title to his name, winning the European Open in Belgium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-225250","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\/225250","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=225250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}