{"id":41599,"date":"2026-02-24T12:04:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41599"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:04:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:04:27","slug":"auger-aliassime-wins-opener-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=41599","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime wins opener in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"
Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada returned to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and worked to pull out a 6-3, 7-6 (4) opening-round win over China’s Zhizhen Zhang on Monday.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime was a finalist in 2025 and lost to Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. On Monday, he saved all four break points he faced but Zhang saved five match points — two in the 10th game of the second set and three more in the 12th to force the tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime’s next opponent will 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 in the two-hour, 36-minute marathon.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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BCI Seguros Chile Open<\/p>\n

Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann won the first seven games of his first-round match and beat Dusan Lajovic of Serbia 6-0, 6-3 in Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n

Hanfmann had a 22-9 edge in winners and overcame 24 unforced errors in a tidy 74 minutes. No. 7 seed Francisco Comesana, meanwhile, needed two hours and 51 minutes to get past Spaniard Pedro Martinez 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (4). Comesana saved one match point in the third set to stay alive.<\/p>\n

Comesana’s second-round opponent will be Italian qualifier Andrea Pellegrino, who beat Argentine qualifier Alex Barrena 6-2, 2-6, 6-1. In the last match of the Croatian qualifier Dino Prizmic downed Chile’s Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.<\/p>\n

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Abierto Mexicano Telcel<\/p>\n

Qualifier Patrick Kypson earned his first ATP Tour-level victory in just short of two years, upsetting Alex de Minaur 6-1, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (4) in the first round at Acapulco, Mexico.<\/p>\n

Kypson, a 26-year-old North Carolina native who is ranked 103rd in the world, defeated a player ranked in the world’s Top 10 for the first time. And he handled a player with an impressive history at the event, as de Minaur was the Acapulco champion in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n

de Minaur served for the match at 5-4 in the third set, but Kypson converted his lone break point of the set to put even and ultimately won in a tiebreaker.<\/p>\n

Spain’s Rafael Jodar defeated seventh-seeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain 6-3, 6-2 in the day’s other 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 also advanced.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada returned to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships and worked to pull 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 lost to Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas. On Monday, he saved all four break points he faced but Zhang saved five […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}