(Madrid) Félix Auger-Aliassime and his playing partner Grigor Dimitrov reached the knockout stages of the men’s doubles at the Madrid Tennis Open on Tuesday morning.
Posted at 9:45 a.m.
Auger-Aliassime and Dimitrov beat Argentina’s Maximo Gonzalez and Diego Schwartzman 6-3, 7-6 (8) after one hour and 51 minutes of play on Spanish clay.
The Quebecois and the Bulgarian will face in the next round the winners of the match between the Colombians Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah and the tandem formed by the South African Raven Klaasen and the Japanese Ben McLachlan.
In addition, Auger-Aliassime’s singles match, the eighth seed, against a player from the qualifications has been moved to Wednesday.
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Grigor Dimitrov
On the other hand, Ontario’s Denis Shapovalov, 14and seeded, meets Britain’s Andy Murray in the second round later today. Yesterday he defeated Frenchman Ugo Humbert 7-6 (1), 6-3.
On the women’s side, Ontario’s Bianca Andreescu will cross swords later today with American Jessica Pegula in the round of 16 of the Madrid tournament.
Her compatriot Gabriela Dabrowski will also be in doubles action with her Mexican playing partner Giuliana Olmos.
They will face Slovak Tereza Mihalikova and Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri, who ousted Quebecer Leylah Annie Fernandez and her Czech teammate Katerina Siniakova in the previous round.