{"id":591212,"date":"2026-04-08T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591212\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:58:12","slug":"auger-aliassime-advances-to-third-round-at-monte-carlo-masters-with-win-over-cilic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591212\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime advances to third round at Monte-Carlo Masters with win over Cilic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MONACO \u2014 Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime kicked off his clay-court season Wednesday with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over Croatia\u2019s Marin Cilic in the second round of the Monte-Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, seeded sixth at the event, took control of the second set with a huge break to go up 3-1 when Cilic double-faulted on break point. Later, Auger-Aliassime saved a break point with an ace before holding to take a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He wrapped up the win after a brief rally on match point ended when Cilic hit long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old from Montreal, who had a bye in the first round, improved his record this season to 16-6. He won his ninth career title in February at Montpelier, France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime will next face ninth seed Casper Ruud of Norway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian holds a 4-3 career record against Ruud after defeating him in their last three meetings, all in 2024. That run included wins on clay at the Madrid Masters and the Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONACO \u2014 Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime kicked off his clay-court season Wednesday with a 7-6 (4), 6-3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-591212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591212","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=591212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}