{"id":743236,"date":"2026-06-17T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743236\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:10:14","slug":"auger-aliassime-overcomes-tough-test-against-tien-reaches-halle-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/743236\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime overcomes tough test against Tien, reaches Halle quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HALLE \u2014 Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime narrowly avoided an upset at the Terra Wortmann Open, rallying for a 6-7 (5), 7-5, 7-6 (5) win over Learner Tien of the United States in second-round action Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime, the tennis tournament\u2019s second seed, trailed 4-1 and 5-3 in the third-set tiebreaker before clinching the match in two hours 31 minutes with four straight points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The match was close despite Auger-Aliassime\u2019s dominance on serve. He had 22 aces and won 88 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Breaks were hard to come by, with Auger-Aliassime converting two and Tien scoring one. But Auger-Aliassime\u2019s win against serve to go up 6-5 in the second set was a turning point in a match that left little room for error.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A loss to world No. 19 Tien at the ATP 500 event would have put Auger-Aliassime\u2019s career-high ranking of No. 4 in jeopardy, with No. 5 Alex de Minaur and No. 6 Ben Shelton still playing in tournaments this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, a quarterfinal win in Halle over Frances Tiafoe will ensure he retains that ranking deeper into the grass-court season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Auger-Aliassime is 3-0 against Tiafoe, but hasn\u2019t faced the American since the Paris Masters quarterfinals in 2022.\u2028<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 17, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALLE \u2014 Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime narrowly avoided an upset at the Terra Wortmann Open, rallying for a 6-7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-743236","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\/743236","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=743236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}