{"id":524054,"date":"2026-03-09T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524054\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T06:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T06:59:10","slug":"auger-aliassime-beats-fellow-canadian-diallo-at-indian-wells-open-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/524054\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime beats fellow Canadian Diallo at Indian Wells Open \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDIAN WELLS \u2013 It took F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime a set to get going, but the 25-year-old Canadian prevailed in an all-Montreal men\u2019s singles matchup at the Indian Wells Open on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth-seeded Auger-Aliassime defeated fellow Canadian Gabriel Diallo 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3 in a match that took nearly two-and-a-half hours to play.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old Diallo finished with more aces (11-9) and had no double faults compared to Auger-Aliassime\u2019s five. But he had 42 unforced errors while Auger-Aliassime had 32.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ae47a36832aff7bd1e4800jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"2258\" data-pswp-height=\"1506\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/69ae47a36832aff7bd1e4800jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime returns to Australia's Alex de Minaur during the ABN AMRO ATP Tennis final in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo\/Patrick Post)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime returns to Australia&#8217;s Alex de Minaur during the ABN AMRO ATP Tennis final in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Sunday, Feb. 15, 2026. (AP Photo\/Patrick Post)<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime finished with 28 winners, saved three of four break points and won four of seven break points. Diallo had 20 winners, won one of four break points and saved three of seven break points.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime won 10 of 13 net points and 14 of 15 service games, while Diallo only won seven of 15 net points and 11 of 15 service games.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime will face Arthur Fils of France in Tuesday\u2019s round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"INDIAN WELLS \u2013 It took F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime a set to get going, but the 25-year-old Canadian prevailed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":524055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-524054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524054","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=524054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/524055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}