Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime returns the ball to Canada's Gabriel Diallo during their first round match at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)
Canada's Gabriel Diallo returns the ball to Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime during their first round match at the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament at the St. Jakobshalle in Basel, Switzerland, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Georgios Kefalas/Keystone via AP)
PARIS - Needing every point possible to advance to the year-end ATP Finals, Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the Round of 16 at the Paris Masters on Wednesday with a razor-thin 5-7, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (4) win over France's Alexandre Muller.
Auger-Aliassime used his powerful serve to get through the match. He fired 21 aces and had an average first-serve speed of 206 kilometres per hour.
The ninth-seeded Auger-Aliassime needs a deep run in Paris while hoping Lorenzo Musetti doesn't pick up many points at the ATP 1000 event. Musetti is one spot ahead of Auger-Aliassime in eighth spot in the ATP Race To Turin standings. The top eight qualify for the season-ending event in Italy.
Musetti, who had a bye in the first round, faced fellow Italian Lorenzo Sonego later Wednesday.
The 25-year-old ºÃÉ«tv won an ATP 250 event in Belgium nine days ago, but he potentially left some points on the table when he retired during a quarterfinal clash in Basel last week with a sore back.
Muller scored the first break of the match at a crucial time, forcing an error on set point to take the first frame 7-5.
The Frenchman rode that momentum to an early 2-0 lead in the second set after breaking Auger-Aliassime in the second game. But the ºÃÉ«tv responded with a break in the next game and held serve the rest of the way to force a tiebreak.
Auger-Aliassime trailed the tiebreak 5-4 before firing back-to-back aces, then taking set point on return.
Both players held serve in the third set, and Auger-Aliassime came back from deficits of 3-0 and 4-3 in the tiebreak to win the match.
Auger-Aliassime will face Daniel Altmier in the Round of 16. He has a 1-2 career record against the German.
Auger-Aliassime has played in 11 tiebreaks over his last nine matches. While that may make for nervous moments, he often comes out of them on the winning end. According to the ATP Tour's website, Auger-Aliassime is tied for fourth on tour with a tiebreak winning percentage of 69.2.Â
In other second-round action Wednesday, Montreal's Gabriel Diallo was scheduled to face sixth-seeded Australian Alex de Minaur. Â
This report by ºÃÉ«tvwas first published Oct. 29, 2025.
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