{"id":658730,"date":"2026-05-09T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658730\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:56:08","slug":"felix-auger-aliassime-hampered-by-leg-injury-ousted-in-italian-open-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658730\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime hampered by leg injury, ousted in Italian Open second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">ROME \u2014 An uncomfortable F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime was upset in the second round of Italian Open men\u2019s singles Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old from Montreal, who was the fourth seed in the tournament, was ousted by unseeded Mariano Navone of Argentina 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime dealt with a leg issue in the second set and struggled to even walk at times during the second-set tiebreak. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian fended off one match point, but couldn\u2019t overcome Navone, who reached the third round of an ATP Masters 1000 event for the first time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, who had a first-round bye, was the last Canadian to bow out of singles play at the Italian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 25-year-old Navone had yet to drop a set in Rome. He beat Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., in straight sets in the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 9, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME \u2014 An uncomfortable F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime was upset in the second round of Italian Open men\u2019s singles Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-658730","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\/658730","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=658730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}