Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is through to the final of the Open Occitanie tennis tournament in Montpellier, France.
Auger-Aliassime advanced with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over Jesper de Jong of the Netherlands during Saturday’s semifinals.
The second-seeded Auger-Aliassime fired 12 aces and won 74 per cent on first serve.
Auger-Aliassime awaits the winner between top-seeded Andrey Rublev and Aleksandar Kovacevic.
The 24-year-old from Montreal won his sixth ATP Tour title in Adelaide last month and holds a 9-2 record on the season.
He joined Jannik Sinner (33) and Carlos Alcaraz (31) as the only players born since 2000 to reach 30 tour-level semifinals.
Auger-Aliassime reached the semifinals of the Montpellier tournament last year, losing in three sets to Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik.
— With files from the Canadian Press.
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