Canadians Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov win 1st-round matches in Halle

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 17, 2025 2:47 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Canadians Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov had winning starts Tuesday astatine the Terra Wortmann Open grass-court tennis tournament.

Montreal's Auger-Aliassime fired 17 aces successful a 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-1 first-round triumph implicit Serbian qualifier Laslo Djere.

After losing a intimately contested 2nd set, Auger-Aliassime won 93 per cent of archetypal service points and converted 2 of his 3 chances to interruption successful a ascendant 3rd set.

The triumph was Auger-Aliassime's archetypal implicit Djere successful 3 tries. The satellite No. 27, who was coming disconnected a tally to the semifinals past week successful Stuttgart, volition adjacent look the victor of a lucifer betwixt eighth effect Karen Khachanov of Russia and Belgium's Zizou Bergs.

Shapovalov fought his mode into the 2nd circular of the ATP 500 lawsuit successful Halle, Germany, with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (4) upset of sixth effect Ugo Humbert of France.

The No. 31 from Richmond Hill, Ont., won connected his archetypal lucifer constituent connected a forced mistake erstwhile Humbert returned the Canadian's service wide. Shapovalov improved his grounds against Humbert to 4-2.

Humbert had a accidental to service for the lucifer with a treble interruption constituent successful Game 8 of the 3rd set, but Shapovalov recovered to clasp and necktie it 4-4.

Shapovalov volition adjacent look No. 24 Flavio Cobolli of Italy.

Diallo continues winning ways

Fresh disconnected his archetypal ATP Tour title, Montreal's Gabriel Diallo continued his winning ways with a 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 first-round triumph implicit British wild-card Billy Harris connected Tuesday astatine the HSBC Championships successful London.

The 23-year-old Diallo, who won the ATP 250 Libema Open past week, out-aced Harris 11-10 and won 85 per cent of archetypal service points.

He scored 2 much breaks than Harris, converting 4 of 7 chances portion redeeming 4 of the six helium faced.

Diallo, who had a career-high ranking of No. 44 entering the tournament, volition adjacent look Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic.

Other results

Elsewhere, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., was defeated successful the archetypal circular of the WTA 500 Berlin Tennis Open 6-4, 6-3 by Amanda Anisimova of the United States.

Anisimova broke Andreescu 3 times connected 4 chances to cruise to triumph successful 65 minutes.

Andreescu, who opened her writer play with a tally to the quarterfinals of the Libema Open, fell to 7-7 connected the season.