Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov lose at Halle Open in Round 16 of grass-court tourney

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 19, 2025 10:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Canada's apical men's tennis players each fell connected Thursday connected the European grass-court circuit.

Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., mislaid successful the Round of 16 astatine the Terra Wortmann Open successful Halle, Germany.

Auger-Aliassime served 12 aces but dropped a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 determination to Karen Khachanov. Shapovalov fell successful a choky three-set battle, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-6 (5), to Italy's Flavio Cobolli contempt 8 aces and 5 interruption points.

Later Thursday, Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov were eliminated a 2nd time, 6-2, 6-2 successful their doubles semifinal against Italian 2nd seeds Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.

In London astatine the HSBC Championships, Montreal's Gabriel Diallo was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic, who won 96 per cent of his first-serve points.

Diallo was coming disconnected his archetypal vocation triumph past week astatine the ATP 250 Libema Open.

Canada to look Mexico, Denmark in BJK Cup playoff

Canada volition instrumentality connected Mexico and Denmark successful a Billie Jean King Cup playoff from Nov. 14 to 16 successful Monterrey, Mexico.

The victor of the Group A circular robin advances to the 2026 Qualifiers of the women's tennis tournament. The different 2 countries volition play successful Regional Group I adjacent year.

Each state volition play each different successful a one-day necktie featuring 2 singles matches and 1 doubles match. The players representing each federation person yet to beryllium confirmed.

Canada fell 2-1 this twelvemonth successful its qualifying necktie against Japan successful April, snapping a four-year streak of making the Billie Jean King Cup Finals.

The 2023 champions volition look Mexico successful Billie Jean King Cup contention for the archetypal clip since January 2008, erstwhile Canada prevailed 3-0 successful Medellin, Colombia.

Canada hasn't played against Denmark since 1991.

"I'm looking guardant to returning to the Billie Jean King Cup contention this fall," Canada skipper Heidi El Tabakh said successful a statement. "Our contention volition beryllium tough, with some Mexico and Denmark posing unsocial challenges, but our squad is acceptable to vie against the champion nations successful the world. I'm assured they'll emergence to this juncture and execute our extremity of returning to the 2026 qualifiers."