Montreal ace Felix Auger-Aliassime advances to Marseille semis

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Third-seeded Auger-Aliassime shrugged off an early service break to defeat fifth-seeded Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 6-3, 6-4.

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Pat Hickey • Montreal Gazette

Publishing date:

Feb 18, 2022 • 16 minutes ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation

Montreal's Félix Auger-Aliassime serves during his quarter-final match against Ilya Ivashka of Belarus at the Open 13 event in Marseille, France, on Feb. 18, 2022.
Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime serves during his quarter-final match against Ilya Ivashka of Belarus at the Open 13 event in Marseille, France, on Feb. 18, 2022. Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT /AFP via Getty Images

Félix Auger-Aliassime is two wins away from his second ATP Tour title at the Open 13 in Marseille, France, and the good news is that he won’t have Stefanos Tsitsipas standing in his way.

The 21-year-old Montrealer upset Tsitsipas Sunday to win the ABM Amro tournament in Rotterdam for his first title and he and Tsitsipas were projected to meet in the semifinals in Marseille.

But the top-seeded Tsitsipas came up short in Friday’s quarter-finals, losing to Russian qualifier Roman Safiullin 6-4, 6-4, while the third-seeded Auger-Aliassime shrugged off an early service break to defeat fifth-seeded Ilya Ivashka of Belarus 6-3, 6-4.

Auger-Aliassime will meet Safiullin in one semifinal, while second-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia will play ninth-seeded Benjamin Bonzi of France.

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