"We have history, which means we're putting it on the back burner," said Auger, who lost to Norry in the semifinals in Los Cabos last week. Aliasim says.
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Pat Hickey • Montreal GazetteFélix Auger-Aliassime,Last Canada人 said at the National Bank Open that he has a positive attitude going into Thursday's third-round match against Cameron Norrie.
"We have a history, which means we put it on the back burner," said Auger-Aliassime, who lost to Norry in the semi-finals in Los Cabos last week. "We lost last week, but there were some things that went well. I'm going to repeat what went well last week. The results could be on my side."
Top 5 On a day when four of the seeds lost, sixth seed Auger-Aliassime overcame his nervous and tough opponent on Wednesday with a 7-6 (6), 6-4 win over Yoshihito Nishioka. Japanese.
Auger-Aliassime had to fight to take his first set. The Montrealer saved four break points before Nishioka took a 3-2 lead from him as he closed out his final game against Nick Kyrgios in Washington last week. However, Auger-Aliassime broke back in the next game, with both players holding serve to force a tiebreak.
Auger-Aliassime hit his two aces to take a 6-3 lead. However, when playing a series of sloppy points, he allowed the Japanese player to return to the set. We found the tiebreak deadlocked at 6-6, including a drop shot that failed to reach the net.
However, Auger-Aliassime closed out the set with a backhand winner and a forehand passing his shot.
"It's certainly a big relief whenever you win the first set in tennis," he said. "Especially in a situation like this, this is very important. I think it was the 1 hour 15 minute first set. You certainly want that set to go on your side.
{58" } Auger-Aliassime won the second set, breaking Nishioka in the fifth game and having break points in the other two games, he failed to capitalize on two match points at 5-3.Norrie beat Dutchman Botic Van De Zandschulp 6-1 6-2 to easily advance to the round of 16. He faces Auger-Aliassime at 4:00 on Thursday.In the final match of the night, British qualifier Jack Draper defeated third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 7-5, 7-6 (4).
Great Britain's Daniel Evans upset No. 5 seed Andrei Rublev of Russia 6-4 6-4, while No. 1 seed Daniil Medvedev and No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz finished Wednesday afternoon. Playing an upset, No. 4 seed Kasper Ruud (Norway) is the highest-ranked survivor and Auger-Aliassime could face him in the quarterfinals.
10th seed Taylor Fritz was on a rollercoaster ride before beating fellow American Francis Tierfoe, who suffered a stress fracture in his leg, lost the first set and led 4-0 in the third. Fritz said in a post-match tweet that his foot problem was his Said it looked like he was behind, but he asked for a medical timeout, his vision was getting blurry and he could be ready to play in these conditions because he was playing in these conditions.
"I'm sorry if I caused anyone to worry," he added.
Fritz is from California but has ties to Canada. His uncle, Harry Fritz, played in the Canadian Davis Cup and was a top-ranked player in Canada. In 1982, in the era before the tie-break, he beat Venezuela's Jorge Andrew 16-14, 11-9, 9-11, 4-6, 11-9 in a total of 100 games. It is the record for the most matches played in the match of .
Albert Ramos Vinolas became only his third Spaniard to advance to the third round with his 6-4 6-2 win over No. 11 seed Diego Schwartzman (Argentina). became.
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