Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime loses to Serbian Dusan Lajovic at Madrid Open
By The Canadian Press on April 29, 2023.
MADRID – Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Madrid Open singles tournament after losing to Dusan Lajovic in three sets, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (5), in the Round of 64 on Saturday. Lajovic handily won the first set, but Auger-Aliassime responded with a comfortable win of his own in the second. Lajovic then took the third set in a tiebreak. Auger-Aliassime, who’s ninth in the ATP rankings, hit 12 aces but also gave up 11 double faults in the match. Lajovic, 32, moves on to play Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff. The 22-year-old Auger-Aliassime remains in the tournament on the doubles side, teaming up with fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov for a Round of 16 match Sunday against Harri Heliovaara of Finland and Great Britain’s Lloyd Glasspool. Shapovalov, a 24-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., was scheduled to play China’s Zhang Zhizhen in Round of 64 singles play later Saturday. This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 29, 2023. 8-7
