Match Report
\n Auger-Aliassime retires against Munar in Basel, dents Turin hopes, Fonseca reaches SFs<\/p>\n
Canadian is ninth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin, 340 points behind eighth-placed Musetti<\/p>\n
October 24, 2025<\/p>\n
Swiss Indoors Basel<\/p>\n
Felix Auger-Aliassime triumphed in Basel in 2022 and 2023.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/a>\u2019s Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> hopes suffered a setback on Friday at the Swiss Indoors Basel<\/a>, where he was forced to retire against Jaume Munar<\/a> after losing the first set.<\/p>\n The Canadian was trailing 3-6 when he walked to the net and ended proceedings after 45 minutes of his quarter-final match at the ATP 500.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime lifted the trophy in Brussels last week to move to ninth in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin. The 25-year-old, who married Nina Ghaibi last month, is 340 points behind eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a>, who occupies the final qualification spot. Musetti is in quarter-final action against Cornetin Moutet in Vienna later on Friday.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime is hoping to make his second appearance at the prestigious year-end event, having competed in 2022. He holds a 43-21 record on the year, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index and is scheduled to compete at the Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> next week.<\/p>\n Joao Fonseca<\/a> followed Auger-Aliassime and Munar onto court and overcame Denis Shapovalov<\/a>, who also retired. Fonseca led the Canadian 3-6, 6-3, 4-1 when Shapovalov approached the Brazilian to shake hands.<\/p>\n Fonseca is into his second tour-level semi-final of the year and first at ATP 500 level. The 19-year-old won his maiden tour-level crown in Buenos Aires earlier this year and is now 23-15 on the season. Fonseca is the second-youngest semi-finalist this century and will play Munar on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Auger-Aliassime retires against Munar in Basel, dents Turin hopes, Fonseca reaches SFs Canadian is ninth in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-222999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}