Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime had his comeback try fall simply quick in a 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (5) loss to Andrey Rublev on Friday within the semifinals of the Qatar Open.
Down 6-3 within the third-set tiebreaker, Auger-Aliassime scored the following two factors on serve. However when the serve rotated to Rublev, the fifth-seeded Russian transformed on his third match level.
Auger-Aliassime misplaced regardless of firing 21 aces within the match. The world No. 23 didn’t convert what turned out to be a vital break-point likelihood within the first recreation of the third set because the gamers held serve the remainder of the way in which.
“(It took) the whole lot. It was tremendous robust right this moment,” Rublev mentioned. ”He was serving properly and I used to be simply saying, ‘OK, I can’t do a lot, this is without doubt one of the finest servers on tour. I simply must attempt to guess and when I’ve a second, simply go for it.'”
Rublev took the primary set when he broke Auger-Aliassime within the clinching recreation, however the Canadian responded with a robust second set by which he fired seven aces and received 81 per cent of service factors.
Rublev improved to 6-1 towards Auger-Aliassime and can subsequent face the winner of a match between eighth-seeded Briton Jack Draper and Czechia’s Jiri Lehecka, who superior to the ultimate 4 with a surprising quarterfinal upset of high seed Carlos Alcaraz.
Auger-Aliassime had superior to the semifinal of the ATP 500 event after fourth seed Daniil Medvedev retired from their quarterfinal with meals poisoning after dropping the primary set 6-3.
The 24-year-old Canadian has a 14-4 document this season after successful titles final month in Adelaide, Australia and Montpellier, France.
