{"id":462196,"date":"2026-02-08T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462196\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:15:10","slug":"canadian-tennis-star-felix-auger-aliassime-defends-montpellier-title-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/462196\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime defends Montpellier title | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to win here again, I\u2019m thrilled with my whole week and especially today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime became just the second man to successfully defend his title in Montpellier, joining Richard Gasquet.<\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth tour-level singles title of the 25-year-old from Montreal, making him the Canadian with the most men\u2019s singles titles in the Open Era, passing recently retired Milos Raonic. <\/p>\n<p>He entered the tournament as the top seed and ranked eighth in the world.<\/p>\n<p>He also extended his lead as the player with the most indoor wins on the ATP Tour this decade to 89. World No. 2 Jannik Sinner is second with 83.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime improved to 2-1 against Mannarino, who entered the tournament as a wild card. <\/p>\n<p>Mannarino reached a career-high ranking of No. 17 early in 2024 before a slump in form saw him drop out of the top 100. He was ranked 70th heading into this tournament.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s amazing to win here again, I\u2019m thrilled with my whole week and especially today.\u201d Auger-Aliassime became just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82,593],"class_list":["post-462196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462196","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=462196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}