This could partially be due to his winning the Shanghai Masters a couple of weeks ago and then traveling to Europe and making the final of the Swiss Indoors. That is the kind of thing Hurkacz does when he is playing well.

The Canadian finished with 13 aces to the Pole’s 12 and Auger-Aliassime won a ridiculous 42 of his 45 first serves. Hurkacz has a bombastic serve, but Auger-Aliassime was able to outserve him on Sunday. Felix Auger-Aliassime is the king of the Swiss Indoors Hurkacz kept the match close through guile and want, but his winning a set never truly seemed like a real possibility, especially not winning two of three sets against Auger-Aliassime. While the Canadian won the match 7-6(3) 7-6(5), he felt in total control. His opponent, Hubert Hurkacz, just seemed off in the final.

In repeating as champion, Auger-Aliassime became the first Canadian to repeat as a tourney champion since Milos Raonic won the San Jose Open in 20. Auger-Aliassime won the Swiss Indoors last year too so he is basically making the tournament his equal to Novak Djokovic’s Australian Open and Rafael Nadal’s French Open. But there is also a trend to the titles he does win so maybe what he did at the Swiss Indoors shouldn’t be so shocking after all.Īll four of his titles have come indoors and on hard courts. 2022 was actually a breakout year for Auger-Aliassime as he won four titles, the only titles of his career so far. Felix Auger-Aliassime has not had the year he would have wanted – he had lost his first matches in nine different tournaments.

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