Auger-Aliassime extends winning streak to 14 matches with 3-set victory over Ymer at Paris Masters

Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime stored his winning streak alive with a razor-thin 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (6) win over Sweden’s Mikael Ymer in second-round motion Wednesday at the Paris Masters tennis event.

Auger-Aliassime gained on his second match level alternative to finish a marathon match that took three and a half hours to full. With the eight-seeded Canadian serving for the match, Ymer hit a forehand lengthy as Auger-Aliassime continued his march towards the season-ending ATP Finals with his 14th straight win.

Auger-Aliassime arrange his second match level when Ymer hit a shot into the online on the next level.

Ymer, who superior to the principle draw via qualifying, didn’t make it straightforward for the in-form Auger-Aliassime.

The Montreal native, who entered Paris after holding serve all through his event win final week at the Swiss Indoors in Basel, confronted 17 break factors on Wednesday and saved 14 of them.

But Auger-Aliassime was opportunistic on his break possibilities, changing 4 of 5.

Auger-Aliassime had 11 winners to Ymer’s two and 45 winners to his opponent’s 34.

The Canadian will subsequent face the winner of a match between ninth-seeded American Taylor Fritz and French wild-card Gilles Simon.

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Fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., was scheduled to play Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, the event’s 14th seed, later Wednesday.

Auger-Aliassime entered the event on the heels of three straight titles: ATP 250 event wins in Florence, Italy and Antwerp, Belgium and the ATP 500 win in Basel.

He is searching for his first Masters-level title in Paris in addition to his first berth within the ATP Finals.

Auger-Aliassime entered Paris ranked sixth within the ATP Finals qualifying standings. The gamers holding down the sixth and seventh spots at the tip of the event will earn the ultimate two berths.

Fritz entered the event in eighth spot.

The ATP Finals begin Nov. 13 in Turin, Italy.

de Minaur upsets 4th-seeded Medvedev

Alex de Minaur upset fourth-seeded Daniil Medvedev 6-4, 2-6, 7-5 within the second spherical of the Paris Masters on Wednesday.

After rallying from a 2-0 deficit within the closing set, De Minaur failed to convert his first two match factors at 5-4. He hit a return out on the primary match level and made an unforced error on the second.

But the Australian acquired two extra possibilities at 6-5. Medvedev saved the third match level with a service winner earlier than double-faulting on the fourth and angrily throwing his racket to the bottom.

Medvedev, who gained the Paris Masters in 2020 and was runner-up final yr, dropped serve within the first set by overhitting a smash within the closing recreation. But the Russian capitalized on unforced errors by De Minaur to break twice within the second set.

De Minaur will subsequent play Frances Tiafoe, who beat Jack Draper 6-3, 7-5.

Tsitsipas raced to a 3-0 lead within the first set. He then hit a forehand winner throughout court docket to break Evans within the opening recreation of the second, earlier than changing his first match level with an ace.

“I’m glad with the extent of tennis I introduced once I had to,” Tsitsipas stated. “I used to be transferring properly, I used to be dictating properly. I mixed every part, together with my defence, the transition to offence. I used to be serving properly, I used to be very calm in essential moments, and it paid off.”