Felix Auger-Aliassime bounced in Shanghai Masters quarterfinals

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· Posted: Oct 10, 2025 12:41 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 10

Montreal's Felix Auger-Aliassime was eliminated from the Shanghai Masters aft a 6-3, 6-4 quarterfinal nonaccomplishment to France's Arthur Rinderknech connected Friday.

The 12th-seeded Auger-Aliassime fired 8 aces but besides had 3 treble faults, each successful the archetypal set.

Rinderknech, ranked 54th successful the world, won 83 per cent of points connected his archetypal serve, compared with 64 per cent for Auger-Aliassime. The Frenchman broke Auger-Aliassime erstwhile successful each acceptable and erased each 3 interruption points helium faced.

It was Rinderknech's 3rd consecutive triumph implicit a top-20 hostile successful Shanghai.

The lucifer lasted 1 hr and 28 minutes.

Elsewhere successful China, Bianca Andreescu, of Mississauga, Ont., and spouse Yue Yuan of China were eliminated successful the women's doubles quarterfinals astatine the Wuhan Open, falling 6-4, 7-6 (1) to Aleksandra Krunic and Anna Danilina.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic faces Monaco's Valentin Vacherot successful the different semifinal matchup.

Sabalenka reaches semis successful Wuhan

Aryna Sabalenka extended her winning streak astatine Wuhan to 20 matches with a 6-3, 6-3 triumph implicit eighth-seeded Elena Rybakina connected Friday to scope the semifinals of the WTA 1000-level tournament.

The U.S. Open champion won the Wuhan Open rubric successful 2018, '19 and again past twelvemonth connected her instrumentality to the Chinese city.

Top-ranked Sabalenka broke Rybakina's service 3 times successful the 1-hour, 25-minute lucifer to beforehand into the semifinals for the 11th clip this season, and past waved and blew kisses to the crowd.

"We person a truly immense past against each other," Sabalenka said successful her on-court interview. "Always large battles ... [Rybakina] ever pushes maine to the bounds to get the win."

She'll adjacent play sixth-deed Jessica Pegula, who earlier Friday went to a 3rd acceptable for a seventh consecutive match. She dropped the archetypal acceptable against Katerina Siniakova earlier reeling done the adjacent 2 for a 2-6, 6-0, 6-3 victory.

Pegula is coming disconnected wins implicit No. 9 Ekaterina Alexandrova and chap American Hailey Baptiste, erstwhile she needed 7 lucifer points to clinch the win.

In the different quarterfinals, No. 2-ranked Iga Swiatek was playing Jasmine Paolini and No. 3 Coco Gauff was scheduled to conscionable Laura Siegemund.