{"id":499876,"date":"2026-02-26T02:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499876\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T02:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:50:11","slug":"canadian-tennis-star-felix-auger-aliassime-through-to-dubai-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/499876\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime through to Dubai quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DUBAI \u2014 Top seed F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-4, 6-4 win over French qualifier Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime was out-aced 11-8 in the match between two of the game\u2019s biggest servers. Mpetshi Perricard is second on the ATP Tour in average aces per match over the past year with 13.6, while Auger-Aliassime is 10th over that span with an average of 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Still, Auger-Aliassime was strong on serve in the victory. The world No. 8 won 83 per cent of first service points and saved two of the three break points he faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Auger-Aliassime broke Mpetshi Perricard three times on five chances, including a key break to go up 5-4 in the first set, and improved to 3-1 against the Frenchman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, who improved his record this season to 11-3, next faces eighth seed Jiri Lehecka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime has a 2-1 record against the 24-year-old Czech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUBAI \u2014 Top seed F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-4,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-499876","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\/499876","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=499876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}