Tennis: Auger-Aliassime ends Alexandre Müller's run in Hamburg

Alexandre Müller loses by the skin of his teeth. The Frenchman, ranked 40th in the world, lost in the quarter-finals of the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg to Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime in three sets 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 on Thursday evening. The day after his exploit against the world number 3 , German Alexander Zverev (6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (7/5)), Alexandre Müller saved a match point in the second set while Félix Auger-Aliassime was serving for the match, pushing the Canadian into a third set, winning the tie-break in the second set.

In the third set, Müller saved two more match points on his serve, before giving in after three hours of battling (2h59) on the seventh opportunity to close for the world number 30. In the semi-finals, Auger-Aliassime will face Andrey Rublev, world number 17 and winner early in the evening against the Italian Luciano Darderi in three sets (6-1, 3-6, 6-3) in less than two hours of play. The other semi-final will pit the Italian Flavio Cobolli (world number 35), who defeated the Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut (7-6 (7/4), 6-0), against the Argentinian Tomas Martin Etcheverry, world number 55, who got rid of the Czech Jiri Lehecka (7-5, 6-3).