MADRID — Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is thru to the quarterfinals of the Madrid Open tennis match following a lopsided 6-1, 6-2 win over Italy’s Jannik Sinner on Thursday.
Auger-Aliassime’s serve was once efficient right through the third-round fit on the clay-court Masters-level match. He fired 5 aces and received 80 in step with cent of provider issues, together with 90 in step with cent on first serve.
Auger-Aliassime, the 8th seed in Madrid, didn’t face spoil level, and transformed 4 of the 8 spoil possibilities he had in opposition to Tenth-seeded Sinner.
The Canadian took the primary assembly between two of the ATP Excursions brightest younger stars. Auger-Aliassime, 21, got here into the match ranked Tenth on this planet, with the 20-year-old Sinner ranked twelfth.
Auger-Aliassime will face protecting Madrid champion Alexander Zverev of Germany within the quarterfinals. It’ll be the 7th assembly between the 2, with Zverev keeping a 4-2 edge within the occupation head-to-head collection.
Zverev, the arena No. 3, complicated to the quarters when Italian qualifier Lorenzo Musetti retired from their third-round fit trailing 6-3, 1-0.
