Melbourne: Seeds of Felix Auger-Aliassion won a battle of four sets with veteran Marin Cilic in heating up hot to reach the Australian Open quarter-final on Monday.
Auger-Aliasmime Composes 27 CROASIA CILIC – which is an Australian Runner-Up Open for Roger Federer in Melbourne in 2018 – 2-6, 7-6 (9/7), 6-2 (7/4) in 3 hours 35 minutes on John Cain Arena.
He joined Denis Shapovalov in the last eight to make it the first time two Canadian men had reached that stage at the Australian Open.
Auger-aliastion will face last year’s finalist and the second seed Daniil Medvedev for a place in the semi-finals.
“It’s amazing.
It made my belief higher, I lost three times for Marin in the past, this was my first victory against him and in an important moment like this,” Canada said.
“I told him at the end of the match he was a champion, the way he handled himself and the way he played and I knew he would come out with his best level and test me and made me win.” So I was really relieved and happy to get past, especially the way I did it.
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