Montreal’s Auger-aliassime advances to semifinals at Noventi Open

HALLE, GERMANY — Canada’s Félix Auger-aliassime is heading to the semifinals of the Noventi Open tennis tournament.

Auger-aliassime, from Montreal, downed American qualifier Marcos Giron, 6-3, 6-2, in quarterfinal play at the ATP

Tour 500 grass-court event Friday.

The Canadian won 93 per cent of points when he got his first serve in (28-of-30) and saved the lone break point against him.

Auger-aliassime, ranked 21st in the world, converted on all three of his breakpoint opportunities against the world No. 75.

Auger-aliassime will face France’s Ugo Humbert in the semifinals on Saturday.

Humbert beat out American Sebastian Korda, 6-2, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4, on Friday.

Auger-aliassime’s run at the tournament included a win over Swiss legend Roger Federer in the second round.

No. 4 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia faces qualifier Nikoloz Basilashvili of Georgia in the other semifinal.

Auger-aliassime made it to the final of the Stuttgart Open last week, falling against Marin Cilic. He is 0-8 for his career in ATP Tour finals.

Meanwhile, Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., led 6-3 against American Frances Tiafoe in the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Club grass-court tournament Friday before play was suspended because of darkness.

The match will resume Saturday.