Felix Auger-Aliassime has Montreal bragging rights.
The fifth-seeded Auger-Aliassime beat fellow Montrealer Gabriel Diallo 6-2, 7-5 within the first spherical of the Swiss Indoors on Wednesday.
The Canadians had a protracted embrace on the internet after Auger-Aliassime served out to win.
It was the primary profession ATP Tour assembly between two gamers who grew up collectively. Diallo is 24 and Auger-Aliassime is 25, although the latter has been on the professional circuit for an extended time after beginning to make headlines as an adolescent. Auger-Aliassime is ranked twelfth on the planet after reaching the semifinals of the US Open final month.
Diallo, the world No. 41, performed NCAA tennis at Kentucky and has began to rise the previous couple of years.
Auger-Aliassime transformed 4 of 12 break factors, whereas Diallo was one-for-four. Auger-Aliassime additionally had the higher proportion of first serves in (78 to 67).
Auger-Aliassime, coming off a championship run on the European Open in Belgium, will subsequent face Marin Cilic of Croatia.
