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GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND — Montreal’s Félix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the Swiss Open clay-court tennis tournament with a 7-6 (9), 7-6 (2) quarter-final loss to Italy’s Matteo Berrettini on Friday.
Berrettini went up 5-0 in the second tiebreaker before converting his first match point on serve.
Auger-Aliassime missed a chance to take control of the first set when Berrettini came back from triple break point in the sixth game to hold for a 3-3 tie.
The Italian then converted set point on return in the ensuing tiebreaker when Auger-Aliassime ended a six-shot rally with an unforced error.
Auger-Aliassime’s career record against Berrettini fell to 2-5.
The Canadian, who turns 24 next month, is scheduled to play in men’s singles and doubles at the Paris Games starting next week and used this tournament as a tune-up.
Tennis at the Olympics will be held on the clay courts at Roland Garros, the site of the French Open.
On Monday, Auger-Aliassime and Swiss partner Dominic Stricker lost 6-4, 7-6 (4) to top seeds Jamie Murray of Britain and Czechia’s Adam Pavlasek in the first round of doubles competition.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas beat Fabio Fognini 6-4, 6-3 on Friday. He’ll face the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 3 seed, and Italian Matteo Berrettini, the No 6 seed, in the next round
Tsitsipas, Hamburg Open, 2024 © Zuma / Panoramic
Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, the top seed, moved into the semi-finals of the Swiss Open by beating Italian Fabio Fognini, the No 7 seed, 6-4, 6-3 at the Roy Emerson Arena in Gstaad.
Tsitsipas, ranked No 12, will face the winner of the match between Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime, the No 3 seed, and Italian Matteo Berrettini, the No 6 seed, next.
Fognini, ranked No 80, won against French qualifier Titouan Droguet (6-4, 6-3) and edged out Peruvian qualifier Juan Pablo Varillas (3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-5) in the previous rounds of the Gstaad tournament.
Gstaad ATP 250, other last-eight results (Roy Emerson Arena, clay, EUR 579.320, most recent results first):
- Felix Auger-Aliassime vs. Matteo Berrettini
- Jan-Lennard Struff (5) beat Tomas Martin Etcheverry (4): 7-5, 3-6, 6-3
- Quentin Halys (Q) beat Gustavo Heide (Q): 6-1, 7-5
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