The clay-court season most likely cannot finish quickly sufficient for Felix Auger-Aliassime.
The Canadian, seeded 18th, misplaced his third consecutive opening match at a match on clay, falling 7-6 (5), 6-4 to Argentina’s Juan Manuel Cerundolo on Friday on the Madrid Open.
Cerundolo, ranked 126th on the planet, entered the week with a 1-4 file in tour-level, main-draw matches this season.
Auger-Aliassime gained two smaller tournaments on laborious courts to open the season, however hasn’t loved the identical success on clay.
Denis Shapovalov, the opposite Canadian man within the match, opens play in Madrid on Saturday in opposition to Japan’s Kei Nishikori.
In the meantime, Bianca Andreescu misplaced her second-round girls’s singles match later Friday 6-3, 6-2 in opposition to No. 10 seed Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan.
Andreescu, the 2019 U.S. Open champion, returned to WTA 1000 competitors this week after a six-month break to give attention to her well being.
She opened with a 6-2, 6-4 win over American McCartney Kessler on Wednesday.
–with recordsdata from The Canadian Press
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