{"id":473779,"date":"2026-02-14T04:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T04:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:36:10","slug":"felix-auger-aliassime-reaches-semifinals-of-abn-amro-open-mens-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/473779\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime reaches semifinals of ABN AMRO Open men&#8217;s tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ROTTERDAM \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the semifinals of the ABN AMRO Open men\u2019s tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The second-seeded Auger-Aliassime advanced with a 7-6 (2), 6-2 win over Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands on Friday. After winning the first-set tiebreaker, Auger-Aliassime, of Montreal, opened the second with the first of two breaks he recorded in the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian had a 59 per cent first-serve percentage _ Griekspoor was at 68 per cent _ but Auger Aliassime was stellar 31-of-34 on first-serve points won (Griekspoor was 32-of-47) and had more winners (25-12) and fewer unforced errors (17) than his opponent (24).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With the win, Auger-Aliassime took a 2-1 advantage in head-to-head matches with Griekspoor while winning their first-ever indoor meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime finished the match with nine aces and three double-faults. He also converted two-of-five break opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime is on a nice roll. On Sunday, he defeated Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 7-6 (4) to repeat as Open Occitanie champion in Montpellier. It was the ninth-career ATP title for the 25-year-old Canadian and first of 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With that victory, Auger-Aliassime passed Milos Raonic (eight) for the most tour-level titles by a Canadian in the Open Era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 13, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROTTERDAM \u2014 Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime is off to the semifinals of the ABN AMRO Open men\u2019s tennis tournament.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-473779","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\/473779","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=473779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}