Top-seeded Canadian F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the second round of the Hamburg Open with a 7-5, 6-1 win over Czechia’s Vit Kopriva on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old from Montreal took the competitive first set when he scored the first break of the match in the final game.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime then dominated the second set, scoring breaks in the second and fourth games en route to a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n
After Kopriva held serve, Auger-Aliassime opened the decisive game with his eighth ace of the match before wrapping up the victory in one hour 25 minutes.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime will next face American lucky loser Aleksandar Kovacevic at the ATP 500 clay-court tournament.<\/p>\n
The Canadian, ranked fifth in the world, is looking for a good run on clay in Hamburg before the French Open main draw, which begins Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Canadian F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the second round of the Hamburg Open with a 7-5, 6-1 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-680321","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\/680321","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=680321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}