{"id":238634,"date":"2025-10-25T06:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238634\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:23:08","slug":"canadians-auger-aliassime-shapovalov-withdraw-in-basel-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238634\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov withdraw in Basel quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime returns a ball to Spain’s Jaume Munar during their quarterfinal match at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament in Basel, Switzerland, on Friday.Georgios Kefalas\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov both withdrew from their quarterfinal matches on Friday at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament.<\/p>\n

Montreal\u2019s Auger-Aliassime, a two-time winner of the ATP 500 event, retired after losing the first set 6-3 to Spain\u2019s Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n

Later, Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., retired while down 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 to Brazil\u2019s Joao Fonseca.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime, who won his third trophy of the year last week in Brussels, saw his hopes of qualifying for the ATP Finals in Turin dented with the loss.<\/p>\n

He entered the tournament ranked 12th in the world and ninth in the Race to Turin standings, 340 points behind eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti. The top eight qualify for the year-end championship.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime, seeded fifth in Basel, appeared to tweak his lower back during the first set and spent time stretching it out throughout the quarterfinal.<\/p>\n

He dropped his serve in the fourth game and was never able to recover, though he did fend off three break points in the sixth game.<\/p>\n

He had defeated fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo (No. 41) and Croatia\u2019s Marin Cilic (No. 89) in the previous two rounds.<\/p>\n

World No. 23 Shapovalov, who was coming off a semifinal appearance last week in Stockholm, looked solid in his first set against Fonseca, overcoming a break in the first game to go up 1-0.<\/p>\n

But the Brazilian teen, ranked 46th in the world, came back with a strong second set. He scored his fifth break of the match to go up 4-1 in the third set when Shapovalov retired. <\/p>\n

Munar and Fonseca will meet in the semifinals.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Canada\u2019s Gabriela Dabrowski and her American partner Sofia Kenin fell to Brazil\u2019s Luisa Stefani and Hungary\u2019s Timea Babos in the women\u2019s doubles quarterfinals at the Tokyo Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime returns a ball to Spain’s Jaume Munar during their quarterfinal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238635,"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-238634","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\/238634","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=238634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}