Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is heading to the 0.33 around of the Australian Open after successful some other tight fit on Thursday.
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The No. 9 seed, from Montreal, beat international No. 50 Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) in a second-round fit that lasted 4 hours 19 mins.
Auger-Aliassime wanted 5 units to get via Emil Ruusuvuori of Finland within the first around.
The Canadian will face No. 24 seed Daniel Evans of Nice Britain within the 0.33 around. Evans is 1-0 lifetime in opposition to Auger-Aliassime, successful at an Australian Open tune-up match closing 12 months.
The British participant additionally has performed some distance much less tennis than Auger-Aliassime this week, successful his opener in instantly units sooner than getting a walkover in the second one around.
Auger-Aliassime battled again from a wreck down within the fourth set to win the fit. He went low to hit a really perfect volley to win the fit within the fourth tiebreaker.
The Canadian made a whopping 83 unforced mistakes, however escaped with the win thank you largely to a dominant serve.
Auger-Aliassime got here into the primary Grand Slam of the season using momentum after serving to Canada seize the ATP Cup workforce name previous this month in Australia.
No. 14 seed Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., will face No. 23 seed Reilly Opelka of the US in a third-round fit on Friday.
In the meantime, the sixth-seeded girls’s doubles workforce of Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Giuliana Olmos of Mexico beat Camila Osorio of Colombia and Clara Burel of France 6-2, 6-3 in a first-round fit.
