Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime in motion throughout his spherical of 32 match in opposition to China’s Zhizhen Zhang. Picture: REUTERS
DUBAI:
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada returned to the Dubai Responsibility Free Tennis Championships and labored to tug out a 6-3, 7-6 (4) opening-round win over China’s Zhizhen Zhang on Monday.
Auger-Aliassime was a finalist in 2025 and misplaced to Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. On Monday, he saved all 4 break factors he confronted however Zhang saved 5 match factors — two within the tenth recreation of the second set and three extra within the twelfth to power the tiebreaker.
Auger-Aliassime’s subsequent opponent might be French qualifier Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, who edged Tunisian wild card Moez Echargui 7-6 (3), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4). Mpetshi Perricard hit 29 aces within the two-hour, 36-minute marathon.
British No. 4 seed Jack Draper beat French qualifier Quentin Halys 7-6 (8), 6-3, and Swiss wild card Stan Wawrinka beat fellow wild card Benjamin Hassan of Lebanon 7-5, 6-3.
BCI Seguros Chile Open
Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann received the primary seven video games of his first-round match and beat Dusan Lajovic of Serbia 6-0, 6-3 in Santiago, Chile.
Hanfmann had a 22-9 edge in winners and overcame 24 unforced errors in a tidy 74 minutes. No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana, in the meantime, wanted two hours and 51 minutes to get previous Spaniard Pedro Martinez 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (4). Comesana saved one match level within the third set to remain alive.
Comesana’s second-round opponent might be Italian qualifier Andrea Pellegrino, who beat Argentine qualifier Alex Barrena 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. Within the final match of the Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic downed Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
Abierto Mexicano Telcel
Qualifier Patrick Kypson earned his first ATP Tour-level victory in simply wanting two years, upsetting Alex de Minaur 6-1, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4) within the first spherical at Acapulco, Mexico.
Kypson, a 26-year-old North Carolina native who’s ranked 103rd on this planet, defeated a participant ranked on this planet’s Prime 10 for the primary time. And he dealt with a participant with a formidable historical past on the occasion, as de Minaur was the Acapulco champion in 2023 and 2024.
de Minaur served for the match at 5-4 within the third set, however Kypson transformed his lone break level of the set to place even and in the end received in a tiebreaker.
Spain’s Rafael Jodar defeated seventh-seeded Cameron Norrie of Nice Britain 6-3, 6-2 within the day’s different upset. Fourth-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain, sixth-seeded Valentin Vacherot of Monaco, Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic and the U.S. duo of Brandon Nakashima and Aleksandar Kovacevic additionally superior.
