Felix Auger-Aliassime, a two-time US Open semi-finalist, used his experience to come through a potentially tricky tie against Alejandro Tabilo 6-3 7-5 6-1.<\/p>\n
In theory, Chile’s Tablio should have been the fresher of the competitors, having spent about six hours less on court last week after being handed a walkover in round two.<\/p>\n
Canada’s Auger-Aliassime started strongly, though, breaking at 3-1 before the remainder of the opening set stayed on serve.<\/p>\n
Tabilo had never previously gone beyond the third round at a Slam but raised his level in the second.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old, who celebrates his birthday on Tuesday, played aggressively from the baseline and it almost paid dividends as he looked to break for 5-4. <\/p>\n
But Auger-Aliassime raised his level to break for a 6-5 lead and served out the set to take full control.<\/p>\n
Tabilo wilted in the third and was broken three times as his hopes of a first major quarter-final spot were ended.<\/p>\n
“Since I was 12 or 13 it has always been a dream for me to get this far,” Auger-Aliassime said. <\/p>\n
“I am a French-speaking guy – I can say I am very, very happy to get your support and I hope I will have your support until the end.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime, a two-time US Open semi-finalist, used his experience to come through a potentially tricky tie against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-678690","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\/678690","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=678690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}