In the pair\u2019s first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting, top seed Auger-Aliassime earned a 6-4, 7-6(3) win against the 40-year-old Swiss star to reach the quarter-finals in Montpellier.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime, 25, retired during his first-round match at the Australian Open<\/a> against Nuno Borges<\/a> last month but bounced back against Wawrinka to move a step closer to his ninth tour-level title.<\/p>\n \u201cI know him very well,\u201d Auger-Aliassime said of Wawrinka. \u201cGrowing up all these years \u2014 watching him be the legendary player he is \u2014 all of us young players dream of a career like he has had. The winning, but the resilience, the hard work, the consistency.<\/p>\n \u201cHe has been an example for all of us young players. It is crazy we had never played before and I told him in the locker rooms in Australia, \u2018It is crazy we have not played before\u2019, and then it happens. It was great to share the court with him.\u201d<\/p>\n Since the start of the decade, the Canadian Auger-Aliassime has earned a Tour-leading 86 indoor victories, lifting seven titles in these conditions. The No. 8 player in the PIF ATP Rankings will next play sixth seed Arthur Fils<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fils, who is competing in his first tournament since August, defeated lucky loser Ugo Blanchet<\/a> 7-6(4), 7-5 in the second round. With the win, the Frenchman advanced to his 19th tour-level quarter-final.<\/p>\n Luca Nardi<\/a> upset second seed Flavio Cobolli<\/a> 6-2, 6-3 to earn his third Top 20 win. Nardi is into his second tour-level quarter-final and leads Cobolli 4-0 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series. Nardi will meet Martin Damm<\/a> in the last eight, while Cobolli will head to the ATP 500 event in Dallas, aiming to bounce back from opening-round defeats at the Australian Open<\/a> and Montpellier.<\/p>\n Fourth seed Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> dispatched Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta<\/a> 6-4, 6-4 to capture his first win since October. The Dutchman will next face French qualifier Titouan Droguet<\/a> after the home hope beat last year\u2019s finalist Aleksandar Kovacevic<\/a> 4-6, 7-6(5), 6-4.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Defending champion Auger-Aliassime defeats Wawrinka in Montpellier Nardi upsets Cobolli; Fils, Griekspoor, Droguet advance at ATP…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-457287","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\/457287","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=457287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u201cATP\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/atp-no-1-club-banner-article.jpg\")
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