{"id":238007,"date":"2025-10-20T06:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238007\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:57:10","slug":"auger-aliassime-captures-european-open-title-over-czech-republics-lehecka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238007\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime captures European Open title over Czech Republic&#8217;s Lehecka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime has added another title to his name, winning the European Open in Belgium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Canadian topped Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic 7-6(2), 6-6(7), 6-2 to win the hard-court ATP 250 tournament in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime, seeded No. 2 at the tournament, fired 17 aces across the two-hour 34-minute match and won 79 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>He remained in control despite dropping the second set, converting two of his six break-point chances across the match and not allowing Lehecka a break-point opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the final, so we put everything on the line,&#8221; Auger-Aliassime said. &#8220;I feel like we were both extremely focused from the beginning. It was a high level for two sets, then you don&#8217;t know how things can go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But I&#8217;m obviously glad.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>WATCH | Auger-Aliassime tops Lehecka to win European Open title:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760943430_753_default.jpg\"  alt=\"\" class=\"thumbnail\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"video-item-title\">Auger-Aliassime victorious for 2nd time at European Open in Brussels<\/p>\n<p>Montreal&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime outlasted Jiri Lehecka of Czech Republic 7-6(2), 6-7(6), 6-2 Sunday to claim his eighth ATP Tour title this time in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>The victory marks Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s eighth career title and his third of the year, coming after he started off 2025 with January victories in Montpellier, France, and Adelaide, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now tied with Milos Raonic for the most singles titles among Canadian men in the Open era.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime is currently ranked 13th in the world, down from the No. 6 spot he held in November 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime has added another title to his name, winning the European Open in Belgium on Sunday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-238007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}