{"id":468427,"date":"2026-05-31T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468427\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:18:09","slug":"felix-hits-back-to-reach-last-16-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468427\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix hits back to reach last 16 &#8211; Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/players\/36701-f.auger-aliassime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a> has been handed more than his fair share of difficult situations at Roland-Garros this year and each time he&#8217;s risen to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the No.4 seed dropped the opening set for the third time in three matches in his Parisian campaign this\u00a0year, but came to win once more. <\/p>\n<p>The beaten foe this time was No.31 seed from the US Brandon Nakashima &#8211; and a 5-7, 6-1, 7-6(4), 7-6(1) victory moved Auger-Aliassime into the fourth round in Paris for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime has been playing with house money, somewhat, since his escape against German Daniel Altmaier in the opening round, where he trailed 4-1 in the fifth set before coming back to win a deciding tiebreak. <\/p>\n<p>Against Nakashima, he was 4-1 down again at another crucial moment &#8211; with the scoreline knotted at one set apiece.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But in that critical set, he not only erased the deficit but saved a set point in the 10th game to change the complexion of the match. <\/p>\n<p>The popular Canadian also came from a break down in the fourth set en route to claiming his win in 3 hours and 48 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s 2026 effort matches his 2022 and 2024 results in Paris. But that&#8217;s where the similarities end, as the 25-year-old enters the last 16 this time as the higher-ranked player. <\/p>\n<p>After losing those two matches to Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz, respectively, the world No.6 will face unseeded Chilean Alejandro Tabilo on Monday for a spot in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>More to come&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime has been handed more than his fair share of difficult situations at Roland-Garros this year and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-468427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}