{"id":460216,"date":"2026-02-07T18:39:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460216\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:39:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:39:39","slug":"canadas-felix-auger-aliassime-rolls-past-frances-fils-to-advance-to-open-occitanie-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/460216\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime rolls past France&#8217;s Fils to advance to Open Occitanie semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTPELLIER \u2014 Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the men\u2019s singles semifinals at the Open Occitanie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native defeated France\u2019s Arthur Fils 6-4, 6-2 on Friday to advance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, the tournament\u2019s top seed, had 12 aces without any double faults, won 93 per cent of his first-serve points and broke on three of his five opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also held Fils without a break-point chance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fils, the sixth seed, had two aces and one double fault, and won just 55 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime will next face the winner of a quarterfinal match between France\u2019s Titouan Droguet and Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 6, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTPELLIER \u2014 Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the men\u2019s singles semifinals at the Open Occitanie.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-460216","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\/460216","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=460216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}