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ADELAIDE, Australia – Canadian Felix Auger-Alissime rediscovered the taste of victory on Saturday in Adelaide where he won his sixth ATP title (the first outdoors), after a lackluster 2024 season, while the Australian Open start on Sunday.
Former 6th in the world who fell this week to 29th, Auger-Alissiame dominated the American Sebastian Korda (22nd) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1.
“I arrived (in Australia) ten days ago and I loved every day,” said the 24-year-old Canadian who, counting his victory against Taylor Fritz (4th) in the United Cup, has had five victories since. the start of the year, which had not happened to him since his final in Madrid last April.
His previous title dates back to October 2023 when he won in Basel.
On Saturday, after thanking everyone around him, he said “let’s continue our efforts to have a great season!” »
He will face Monday in Melbourne in the first round of the Australian Open, of which he reached the quarter-finals in 2022, the German Jan-Lennard Struff (42).
-The week in Adelaide also reassured Korda who was playing for the first time on the circuit since he had elbow surgery last October.
Keys champion for the second time among women
Already a winner in 2022, the American Madison Keys (20th in the world) won the women’s tournament, this time beating in the final her compatriot Jessica Pegula, seeded no. 1, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1.
Keys, who won the ninth title of her career, had to seek treatment for pain in her left knee in the second set, which she lost before moving forward in the third and beating Pegula, one of her friends on the circuit and finalist at the last United States Open.
“It was very difficult, it was like I had several opponents in front of me,” Pegula said. “Maddie (Madison) hits the ball harder than anyone, she played incredible tennis,” added the world No. 7.
