{"id":748911,"date":"2026-06-20T06:18:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748911\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:18:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:18:14","slug":"auger-aliassime-falls-to-tiafoe-in-halle-quarterfinals-after-dropping-tiebreaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/748911\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime falls to Tiafoe in Halle quarterfinals after dropping tiebreaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLE, Germany \u2014 Canada\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Terra Wortmann Open after falling 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (12) to Frances Tiafoe of the United States in the quarterfinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime, the tennis tournament&#8217;s second seed, saved four match points in a marathon third-set tiebreaker before Tiafoe converted his fifth attempt to reach the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old from Montreal struck 25 aces and had three match points of his own in the two-hour 32-minute matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked 26th in the world, Tiafoe hit five aces and saved 7-of-9 breakpoint chances while world No. 4 Auger Aliassime fended off 3-of-5.<\/p>\n<p>Each player won a total of 105 points in the evenly matched affair.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe will face German wild-card Daniel Altmaier in the semifinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HALLE, Germany \u2014 Canada\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Terra Wortmann Open after falling 3-6, 6-3, 7-6&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-748911","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\/748911","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=748911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}