A strong serve and persistence helped Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime earn his second males’s tennis title of the season.
The second-seeded Canadian defeated Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-2, 6-7 (7), 7-6 (2) to win the Open Occitanie match Sunday in Montpellier, France. Auger-Aliassime, of Montreal registered 19 aces and in addition received 78 per cent of his first serves within the last of the ATP 250 occasion, which lasted two hours 39 minutes.
“I think my serve was huge today to stay in the match, stay close to him in the score and then try my best in the tiebreak,” Auger-Aliassime stated. “I lost one and won one, just glad it went my way.”
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Felix Auger-Aliassime wins Montpellier tennis title in tiebreaker
Felix Auger-Aliassime picked up his second win of the season and seventh profession title by successful the Open Occitanie.
However Auger Aliassime additionally credited Kovacevic’s serve for permitting the American to get again into the match within the second and third units.
“His quality of serving improved,” the Canadian stated. “I felt within the first set . . . he was going for pictures that weren’t simple and wasn’t making them as a lot.
“But in the second and third sets he started making those. He did really well in the second and third sets so I just had to wait for my moment where I could reverse that tendency.”
And Auger-Aliassime stated that’s the place his persistence and mindset of concentrating on the right here and now and never worrying about what had occurred actually paid off.
“I was a little unlucky but also credit to him, he hit a great passing shot on the line when I had match point in the second set,” he stated. “It might’ve simply went out but it surely didn’t and that’s if you’re actually examined mentally.
“You have to try and focus on what you can control and try to respond to this challenge the best way possible and not beat yourself.”
Auger-Aliassime additionally transformed on two-of-three break factors to earn his second title of the season and seventh total. The Canadian received the Adelaide Worldwide occasion in January and improved his file to 10-2 this season.
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