Felix Auger-Aliassime won for the second time on the same day by beating Nick Kyrgios to enter the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Club Championships.
Kyrgios seemingly was distracted in a controversial day at the tournament. He was also booed by some of the fans. The 39th ranked Kyrgios had some hot exchange of words with the officials accusing them of ‘rigging’ his 1st round match. He had some expletive-ridden rant at the umpire, Murphy when he missed a set point (he thought that his opponent had double-faulted on the point and he missed the set on account of that).
Kyrgios was also reportedly playing a computer game till 3 AM on the match day. All this obviously made the player distracted and eased the tough challenge for Auger a little bit.
The Match
In the first set, both the players did well to hold on their serves and level at 6-6. The set was decided in the tiebreak which the Australian won. The first set score in favour of Australian was 7-6(4).
The second set was equally hard fought as the first one with no breaks resulting and the score was levelled at 6-6. The set was won by the young Canadian in the tiebreak 7-6(3).
The 3rd set was pretty much similar to the other 2 sets and levelled at 5-5. Auger broke in the 12th game of the set to win it 7-5.
Auger won the match 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 7-5 in 2 hours and 13 minutes.
SWEET VICTORY ON A TOUGH DAY!
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