Canada’s top men’s tennis players all fell on Thursday on the European grass-court circuit.
Montreal’s Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., lost in the Round of 16 at the Terra Wortmann Open in Halle, Germany.
Auger-Aliassime served 12 aces but dropped a 6-3, 1-6, 6-3 decision to Karen Khachanov. Shapovalov fell in a tight three-set battle, 7-6 (2), 4-6, 7-6 (5), to Italy’s Flavio Cobolli despite eight aces and five break points.
Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov were also scheduled to face off Thursday in the doubles semifinal against Italy’s Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori.
In London at the HSBC Championships, Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo was beaten 6-4, 6-2 by Jiri Lehecka of the Czech Republic, who won 96 per cent of his first-serve points.
Diallo was coming off his first career win last week at the ATP 250 Libema Open.
