Tennis News: Canadian tennis player Felix Auger Aliassime boosts his chances of qualifying for the 2022 ATP Finals season.
The second seed claimed a third title of the 2022 season by beating American Sebastian Korda 6-3, 6-4 in the European Open final, in Antwerp, Belgium.
“It’s been another great week,” Auger Aliassime said. “I had some really good games and fought hard to be here in front of all of you, so a big thank you to all of you and my team.”
“It wouldn’t have been so special of course if we hadn’t played in front of all of you. That’s why we play tennis, to play in front of a crowd like this, on the main court. So, thank you for to have come.
The 2022 Rotterdam champion remains in seventh place in the ATP Race to Turin rankings, but is now 340 points clear of eighth-placed Taylor Fritz.
The Canadian arrived in Florence last week after losing the first round of the Astana Open the previous week. Since then, he has won eight matches in a row after winning the title in Florence, and six of those victories he won in straight sets. He showed an almost flawless performance in the European Open final which lasted 1 hour 26 minutes.
Auger Aliassime lost his first eight finals, but since then he has won three of the last four he has played in and he has won all three in straight sets.
Earlier this season, Korda defeated the second seed in Estoril in straight sets. This encounter will be a very different game and now the second seed leads in their head to head 2-1. Both players will now fly to Basel, where they will compete in the ATP 500 level tournament.
Korda is yet to win a European Open title, but he will regain his confidence after reaching back-to-back finals in Gijon (lost to Andrey Rublev) and Antwerp.
“Getting to the final in a row is a great achievement,” Korda said. “Unfortunately I couldn’t win, but I’ll be back in the next few weeks and hopefully in the next tournament I can go even further.”
Article tags: Tennis, European Open, Felix Auger Aliassime, Sebastien Korda
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