{"id":701237,"date":"2026-05-29T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701237\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:19:12","slug":"auger-aliassime-and-mboko-advance-to-third-round-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/701237\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime and Mboko advance to third round at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada celebrates after winning his second round match against Roman Andres Burruchaga of Argentina at the French Open in Paris on Thursday.Thibault Camus\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

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\u2019s fourth seed posted a 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 win over Argentina\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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

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Canada’s Victoria Mboko plays a backhand return to Czech Republic’s Katerina Siniakova during their women’s singles match on Day 5 of the French Open on Court Simonne-Mathieu at the Roland-Garros Complex in Paris on Thursday.THOMAS SAMSON\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/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 Toronto, 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\u2019s French Open, will next face 19th seed Madison Keys of the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada celebrates after winning his second round match against Roman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,593,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-701237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-tennis","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701237","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=701237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}