Happy Auger-Also will be the rival this Sunday Carlos Alcaraz in the round of 16 at Roland Garros. The Canadian, twenty-first seed, earned that right after beat Ben Shelton (15), 6-4, 6-2 and 6-1.
Aliassime, the young man who surprised the world by winning a challenger match at the age of 14 and who lost his first eight ATP finals, exploded for tennis two seasons ago in which he won four of the five titles he The following are on his record: Rotterdam, Florence, Antwerp and Basel. I would repeat last year on Swiss soil.
The common denominator of the five tournaments is that they are on a hard surface indoors, the conditions that best suit the Canadian, who today occupies 21st place in the ranking at 23 years old.
Aliassime He triumphed two seasons ago in the Davis Cup and moved into the world’s top 10. He climbed to sixth place before playing his first ATP Finals in Turin. He beat Rafael Nadal, with Toni Nadal sitting on his bench.
The uncle and mentor of the 22-time major champion collaborated in his improvement alongside his regular coach, the Frenchman Frederic Fontang. He even had Rafa on the ropes at the 2022 French Open. He was the only tennis player to take him to the fifth set in that edition.
Felix disappeared from the elite for 15 months. His problems with the backhand have been a difficult handicap to overcome. The first signs of recovery were given a month ago in the Mutua Madrid Open reaching the final with Andrey Rublev.
The North American (2-3) is one of the five tennis players in the ‘top100’ who has won the face-to-face against Alcaraz. The other four are Novak Djokovic (2-3), Alexander Zverev (4-5), Roman Safiullin (0-1) and Hugo Gaston (0-1).
To find the last precedent between both, we must go back to the third round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000. The champion of two majors won in two quick sets.
