The Canadian recovered from squandering three match points on return at 5-4 in the third set, eventually advancing 7-6(3), 4-6, 7-6(5) after two hours and 54 minutes. He now leads the Bosnian star 2-0 in the pair\u2019s Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n
“I am feeling good and better now the match is over and I won,” said Auger-Aliassime, who is 38-20 on the year according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index. “It was a tough day for different reasons and you just have to fight and get through. It was three hours but a lot of fun.”<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime has fond memories competing in Belgium, having won the title in Antwerp in 2022 before the ATP 250 event relocated to Brussels in 2025. The 25-year-old has been close to his best in recent months, reaching the semi-finals at the US Open<\/a> and the quarter-finals at ATP Masters 1000 events in Cincinnati and Shanghai.<\/p>\n With his latest win, Auger-Aliassime cemented his spot in 10th in the PIF ATP Live Race To Turin. He is on 2,955 points, trailing eighth-placed Lorenzo Musetti<\/a> by 530 points. Auger-Aliassime, who is chasing his second appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals<\/a>, will play Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a> or American qualifier Eliot Spizzirri<\/a> in the last eight.<\/p>\n Musetti, the Brussels top seed, kept pace by beating qualifier Yannick Hanfmann<\/a> 7-6(3), 7-5 later on Thursday. With the win, Musetti became the seventh man to reach 10 tour-level quarter-finals this season and the third Italian quarter-finalist at the Brussels ATP 250 after Andreas Seppi<\/a> (2016) and Jannik Sinner<\/a> (2019, 2021).<\/p>\n The Italian converted the only break point of the match for either player at 5-5 in the second set. He hit six aces and won 84 per cent (37\/44) of his first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats.<\/p>\n In the opening match of the day, Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> advanced to the quarter-finals after Nikoloz Basilashvili<\/a> was forced to retire. The fifth-seeded Frenchman led Basilashvili 7-5 when play was halted at the ATP 250. Mpetshi Perricard will next meet Musetti.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Match Report Auger-Aliassime prevails in third-set tie-break in Brussels thriller Mpetshi Perricard advances after Basilashvili retires October 16,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-505367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115386452200065298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"It](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760657415_928_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/)
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