CINCINNATI – Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is thru to the Cincinnati Open quarterfinals after a fourth-round win over Benjamin Bonzi of France.
Auger-Aliassime rode his highly effective serve to a 6-4, 6-3 victory on Wednesday, firing 9 aces throughout the one-hour, 14-minute match.
The 25-year-old from Montreal gained all three obtainable break factors and 89 per cent of his first-serve factors.
Auger-Aliassime will face the top-seeded Jannik Sinner of Italy within the quarterfinals of the arduous courtroom event.
Sinner is coming off a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over French qualifier Adrian Mannarino within the spherical of 16.
Auger-Aliassime is the lone Canadian singles participant nonetheless within the event, although Canadian doubles specialist Gabriela Dabrowski and her accomplice, New Zealand’s Erin Routliffe, are set to play American Caty McNally and Linda Noskova of Czechia in third-round motion on Thursday.
