ROTTERDAM — Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime dropped his second-round match on the ABN Amro Open tennis match towards Russia’s Andrey Rublev dropping 6-3, 6-7 (6), 5-7 on Wednesday.
The Montreal native had 20 aces and 42 winners within the two-hour 33-minute match.
Nevertheless, he had 22 unforced errors to only 12 from Rublev, together with 5 double faults to his opponents’ two.
The 23-year-old Auger-Aliassime gained the match again in 2022, one of many 4 he was victorious in that yr.
Earlier Wednesday, Canadian veteran Milos Raonic superior to the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 upset of eighth seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan.
The 33-year-old Raonic, a former world No. 3 from Thornhill, Ont., scored a key break to go up 3-2 within the second set and saved Bublik at bay the remainder of the best way together with his highly effective serve.
5 of Raonic’s 12 aces got here after that break, together with three straight to go up 5-3 and one other to arrange match level within the remaining sport.
Raonic’s quarterfinal opponent is but to be decided, however Gael Monfils may very well be a risk.
The French veteran moved on to the second spherical with a troublesome 7-6 (4), 7-6 (5) win over Canadian qualifier Denis Shapovalov.
Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., missed on a break level likelihood in Recreation 7 of the second set.
With the second tiebreaker tied 5-5, Monfils gained the subsequent level on return earlier than changing match level on serve.
Monfils will face the winner of a match between high seed Jannik Sinner of Italy and Botic van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands within the second spherical. The winner of that match will face Raonic within the quarterfinals.
