PARIS \u2014 Canadian tennis stars F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and Victoria Mboko each came back from a set down to win their second-round matches Thursday at the French Open.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime, the men’s fourth seed posted a 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 win over Argentina’s Roman Andres Burruchaga.<\/p>\n
Ninth-seed Mboko followed with a 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 win over Czech veteran Katerina Siniakova in women’s action.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime broke Burruchaga seven times on 10 chances and was dominant on serve, converting 85 per cent of first serve points and firing seven aces.<\/p>\n
Burruchaga had opportunities to challenge Auger-Aliassime’s serve but converted just two of his eight chances to break.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime also won five games to love, compared to just one for Burruchaga.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime, who is looking to advance past the fourth round at the clay-court Grand Slam for the first time, will next face 31st seed Brandon Nakashima of the United States.<\/p>\n
Mboko started strong, getting an early break to go up 2-0 in the first set. But Siniakova responded by breaking Mboko four times in the set, including a key win to go up 6-5.<\/p>\n
In a match where both players struggled to hold serve, Mboko and Siniakova traded breaks over the final three games of the second set, with Mboko coming out on top.<\/p>\n
The 19-year-old from Burlington, Ont., found her form in a dominant third set, winning the final four games and clinching the match with her eighth break.<\/p>\n
Mboko, who will at least match her third-round performance in her Grand Slam debut at last year’s French Open, will next face 19th seed Madison Keys of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Canadian tennis stars F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime and Victoria Mboko each came back from a set down to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700503,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-700502","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\/700502","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=700502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}