Auger-Aliassime skips French event, prioritizing health over potential ATP Finals berth

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Nov 03, 2025 1:23 PM EST | Last Updated: November 3

Canadian tennis prima Félix Auger-Aliassime is pulling retired of this week's Moselle Open, a determination that prioritizes his wellness portion putting a berth successful the elite ATP Finals astatine risk.

The 25-year-old from Montreal cited a genu wounded arsenic the crushed for his withdrawal from the tourney successful Metz, France, which is 1 of 2 ATP 250 events moving this week.

Auger-Aliassime is coming disconnected a gruelling tally to the last of the Paris Masters, which ended with a 6-4, 7-6 (4) nonaccomplishment to satellite No. 1 Jannik Sinner connected Sunday. He rallied from a acceptable down successful his archetypal 3 matches and played successful 5 tiebreakers.

The effect moved him to No. 8 successful the ATP rankings and past Italy's Lorenzo Musetti successful the contention for the last singles berth successful the ATP Finals, which commencement Sunday successful Turin, Italy.

Musetti is playing successful the Hellenic Championship successful Athens this week and needs to triumph the tourney to retake the ATP Finals berth from Auger-Aliassime.

Auger-Aliassime is 48-22 with 3 titles this twelvemonth and backmost successful the apical 8 for the archetypal clip since April 10, 2023.