Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime and accomplice Dominic Stricker of Switzerland fell 6-4, 7-6 (4) to prime seeds Jamie Murray of Britain and Czechia’s Adam Pavlasek on Monday in first-round doubles motion on the Swiss Open tennis event.
Murray and Pavlasek took an early 6-2 lead within the second-set tiebreaker.
Aliassime and Strikcer scored an ace and some extent on return to make it 6-4 earlier than the highest seeds put the match away in 48 minutes.
Auger-Aliassime fell to 0-3 in doubles this yr.
He’s the third-ranked participant within the singles draw on the clay-court males’s occasion and has a bye to the second spherical, the place he’ll face the winner of Tuesday’s match between Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann and Damir Dzumhur of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Auger-Aliassime is ready to play in singles and doubles on the clay courts of Roland Garros later this month on the Paris Olympics.
