Auger-Aliassime falls short of 2nd Olympic bronze in Paris with loss to Italy’s Musetti in
Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime fell short of a second bronze medal at the Paris Olympics with a 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 loss to Lorenzo Musetti of Italy in the men’s singles third-place match.
Up 2-1 in the third set, Musetti earned two break-point opportunities, but Auger-Aliassime held him off to even the set.
Musetti finally broke a few games later to go up 5-3 after Auger-Aliassime hit the net. He then held serve to take bronze.
The 23-year-old Auger-Aliassime of Montreal lost in straight sets to Carlos Alcaraz of Spain in the semifinal Friday. Alcaraz was scheduled to meet top seed Novak Djokovic of Serbia in Sunday’s final.
Lorenzo Musetti downed Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to win the Olympic bronze medal in tennis.
Also Friday, Auger-Aliassime won bronze alongside Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski in mixed doubles play. They defeated Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands 6-3, 7-6 (2).
Canada’s only Olympic tennis medal before Paris came in 2000, when Daniel Nestor and Sebastien Lareau beat the heavily favoured Australian duo of Todd Woodbridge and Mark Woodforde in the men’s doubles final at the Sydney Games.
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Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gaby Dabrowski teamed up to defeat the Netherland’s Wesley Koolhof and Demi Schuurs 6-3, 7-6(2) to claim the Olympic bronze medal in mixed doubles tennis.
On Saturday, Musetti put Auger-Aliassime on the back heel early, converting his fifth break point to win the first game.
Auger-Aliassime got the break back to tie the first set at 4-4, but Musetti immediately responded.
It was Auger-Aliassime who enjoyed the quick start in the second set, going up 2-0 with an early break, the fending off break point and winning the third game with an ace.
He then scored his second break of the set to go up 5-1 before clinching it on serve.
Other results
In other tennis results from Day 8, Zheng Qinwen claimed China’s first tennis singles gold medal in Olympic history by defeating Donna Vekic of Croatia 6-2, 6-3 in the women’s final on Court Philippe-Chatrier.
Australia’s Matthew Ebden and John Peers captured the men’s doubles gold medal earlier on Saturday with a 6-7 (6), 7-6 (1), 10-8 win over Americans Rajeev Ram and Austin Krajicek.
The United States followed it up with bronze in men’s doubles, as Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul topped the Czech Republic’s Tomas Machac and Adam Pavlasek 6-3, 6-4.
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