{"id":461080,"date":"2026-02-08T04:46:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461080\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:46:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:46:14","slug":"canadas-felix-auger-aliassime-advances-to-open-occitanie-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/461080\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime advances to Open Occitanie final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONTPELLIER \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the Open Occitanie men\u2019s tennis final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native defeated France\u2019s Titouan Droguet 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-1 in the semifinals on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, the tournament\u2019s top seed, went a second straight match without a double fault, firing 20 aces past his opponent. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also converted three of his 10 break-point chances and had 47 winners to Droguet\u2019s 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Droguet had 14 aces to three double faults but failed to break on any of this three opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime will seek his first title of 2026 when he takes on France\u2019s Adrian Mannarino on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTPELLIER \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the Open Occitanie men\u2019s tennis final. The Montreal native defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-461080","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\/461080","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=461080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}