Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime falls to Taylor Fritz in Stuttgart Open semifinals

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 14, 2025 12:40 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 minutes ago

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime fell 6-4, 7-6 (5) to American Taylor Fritz connected Saturday successful semifinal enactment astatine the Stuttgart Open.

The Montreal autochthonal played Fritz adjacent passim the match, going backmost and distant to necktie the archetypal acceptable astatine 4-4 earlier Fritz pulled distant to triumph it.

Auger-Aliassime past pushed the back-and-forth 2nd acceptable to a tiebreaker, knotting the people astatine 4-4 and past being backmost 6-5 earlier Fritz capitalized connected lucifer point.

The 24-year-old Auger-Aliassime had 15 aces to conscionable 1 treble fault, and won 81 per cent of his first-serve points. However, helium did not person a azygous interruption constituent accidental and had 23 unforced errors to Fritz's 12.

Fritz, connected the different hand, had 10 aces to 1 treble fault, won 86 per cent of his first-serve points and broke connected 1 of his 2 chances.

Fritz volition play Germany's Alexander Zverev, who bushed American Ben Shelton 7-6 (8), 7-6 (1) connected Saturday, successful Sunday's final.