It has been an ideal run on the US Open for Canada’s prime males’s tennis participant thus far.
No. 25 Felix Auger-Aliassime took down Russia’s Roman Safiullin 6-1, 7-6, 7-6 in straight units on Thursday evening to advance to the third spherical of the US Open.
The win marks a second straight-set victory for the Montreal native, who had some Canadian followers in attendance cheering him on between factors and forward of serves.
Although he got here away with the straight-set win, it was hardly a stroll within the park for Auger-Aliassime, as he needed to combat off six set factors within the second set to return away with the victory and maintain off a swing of momentum.
Auger-Aliassime dominated on the serve, shedding the benefit for the primary time within the third set, and made certain to not make that mistake once more.
Nonetheless, Saffiulin saved it tight, shedding serve however managing to regular the ship and ship the third set to a tiebreak. However Auger-Aliassime pulled by way of on the serve but once more, placing by way of considered one of his 13 aces after which ending the match on an unreturnable serve to Saffiulin’s backhand.
With the win, Auger-Aliassime joins fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov within the third spherical. He is slated to face No. 3 Alexander Zverev of Germany on Saturday.
