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Canada’s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime fell 6-2, 6-4 to Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz in the semifinals of the ATP Finals tennis tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Montreal native was coming off a straight-sets upset win over third-ranked Alexander Zverev of Germany on Friday.<\/p>\n
However, the top-ranked Alcaraz proved to be too much.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime had five aces to just one double fault but failed to break on his lone opportunity in the match. Alcaraz, who will face second-ranked Jannik Sinner of Italy in Sunday’s final, also had five aces and one double fault, but broke on three of his eight chances.<\/p>\n
With the opening set tied at 1-1, Alcaraz jumped out to a 4-1 edge before winning two of the three final games to take the set.<\/p>\n
In the second, Auger-Aliassime was chasing, but pushed Alcaraz to a 4-4 tie. Alcaraz only gave up two points in the final two games to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n
Sinner beats de Minaur<\/p>\n
Sinner beat Alex de Minaur 7-5, 6-2 on Saturday \u2014 improving to 13-0 against the Australian \u2014 to reach the championship match of the ATP Finals before his home fans.<\/p>\n
The second-ranked Sinner is aiming to retain his title in the season-ending tournament for the year’s top eight players. Sinner will face Alcaraz or Felix Auger-Aliassime in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz already secured the year-ending No. 1 ranking but is seeking to reach his first final at this event.<\/p>\n
Sinner and Alcaraz have met in the last three Grand Slam finals. Alcaraz beat Sinner in a fifth-set tiebreaker to win the French Open; Sinner gained a measure of revenge by beating Alcaraz for the Wimbledon trophy; then Alcaraz again came out on top at the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
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Carlos Alcaraz, right, poses for photos with Jannik Sinner following the men’s singles final of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Sept. 7. (Kirsty Wigglesworth\/The Associated Press)<\/p>\n
Sinner also won the Australian Open \u2014 beating Alexander Zverev in the final \u2014 so he and Alcaraz each won two majors this year.<\/p>\n
It’s the third consecutive final in Turin for Sinner, who hasn’t dropped a set at finals since getting beat by Novak Djokovic in the 2023 championship match \u2014 a run of 18 consecutive sets.<\/p>\n
Sinner saved three break points in his opening service game after falling behind 0-40 and then finally managed to break De Minaur for a 6-5 advantage before serving the set out.<\/p>\n
The second set was never really in question, as Sinner jumped out to a 4-0 lead.<\/p>\n
“I was happy with how I served and with how I reacted in the important moments,” Sinner said.<\/p>\n
Sinner extended his winning streak on indoor hard courts to 31 matches \u2014 also stretching back to that 2023 final against Djokovic. He hasn’t dropped his serve this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-285571","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\/285571","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=285571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}