{"id":476464,"date":"2026-02-15T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476464\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:25:14","slug":"canadas-felix-auger-aliassime-off-to-rotterdam-open-final-with-win-over-bublik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/476464\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime off to Rotterdam Open final with win over Bublik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ROTTERDAM \u2014 Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Kazakhstan\u2019s Alexander Bublik 6-1, 6-2 to move on to the Rotterdam Open final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native had seven aces and three double faults, and broke on four of his six chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, the tournament\u2019s second seed, also won an astounding 96 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The third-seeded Bublik had four aces to one double fault and went without a break-point chance. He only won 53 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime last won this tournament in 2022 and entered this week\u2019s event off a title win at the Open Occitanie last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He will face top seed Alex de Minaur of Australia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROTTERDAM \u2014 Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime defeated Kazakhstan\u2019s Alexander Bublik 6-1, 6-2 to move on to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-476464","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\/476464","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=476464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}