Felix Auger-Aliassime fights past Pedro Martinez in Indian Wells - UBITENNIS

Felix Auger-Aliassime fights past Pedro Martinez in Indian Wells

The Canadian got off to a slow start but managed to beat the Spaniard in straight sets.

By Elias Laradi
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Felix Auger-Aliassime (Roberto Dell'Olivo)

Felix Auger Aliassime booked his spot in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells after beating Pedro Martinez 7-6, 6-4 in two hours and 25 minutes.

The Montreal native hit 33 winners and served 10 aces in a match where he had to recover from a rough start.

Martinez managed to get the early break in the first game of the match as the Canadian was struggling with his serve early on and managed to consolidate the break.

The world number 10 kept pushing to get the break back and at 5-4 on his third breakpoint of the game managed to get the break back and force a tiebreaker.

Auger Aliassime won the first three points of the breaker for an early lead but the Spaniard fought back winning the next three. Proceedings stayed super tight until 6-5 when the Canadian forced an error from Martinez and after one hour and 30 minutes won the first set.

The second set stayed on serve until 4-4 when the number eight seed set up a breakpoint with a beautiful forehand winner down the line and broke serve and was able to serve out the match.

Auger-Aliassime will now face Francisco Cerundolo in the third round who defeated America’s Jack Sock in straight sets 6-4, 6-2.

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