Felix Auger-Aliassime Upsets Berrettini In Cincinnati R3 | ATP Tour

Felix Auger-Aliassime continues to expunge the frustration of his opening-round exit on residence soil in Toronto final week by charging deeper into the draw on the Western & Southern Open. On Thursday night time the Canadian defeated shut pal and World No. 8 Matteo Berrettini 6-4, 6-3 to succeed in the quarter-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 tennis match.

“As we speak I performed an ideal match. At some factors he did not play his finest degree however on the court docket you must cope with completely different conditions and I used to be capable of finding my manner by way of,” Auger-Aliassime mentioned.

The World No. 17 on Friday will play second seed Stefanos Tsitsipas as he makes an attempt to succeed in his second semi-final at this degree (Miami 2019).

Enjoying his first occasion since lacking the Tokyo Olympics with a thigh harm, Berrettini appeared under peak health and had further strapping utilized to his generously taped left leg after the seventh sport of the primary set. The Wimbledon finalist’s plight was not helped by him labouring on common for 2 and a half minutes longer on his service video games within the first than his opponent and by him providing up eight break level alternatives.

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After breaking Berrettini for the second time to clinch the primary set, Auger-Aliassime broke the Italian’s opening service sport and from there chartered a clean course in direction of his first win in three ATP Head2Head conferences and his sixth win over a High 10 participant.

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The 21-year-old is sixteenth within the FedEx ATP Race to Turin and wishes to supply large outcomes on the remaining Masters 1000s and US Open to climb into competition for one in all seven remaining spots on the Nitto ATP Finals. Coming into this week, he had a modest 4-8 document on the Masters 1000 degree courting again to the Tour resumption in August final 12 months.

However he improved to 28-17 on the 12 months Thursday night time and has designs on pushing past his career-high FedEx ATP Rating of No. 15 on Monday by persevering with his cost on the Lindner Household Tennis Centre.

Auger-Aliassime now turns his focus to his seventh ATP Head2Head assembly with Tsitsipas, who has gained the previous 4 battles to guide the rivalry 4-2. “He is an ideal rival and tomorrow can be one other nice battle. From right here on it will likely be prime, prime gamers.”