Canada’s Auger-Aliassime earns spot in ATP 250 Tata Open main draw

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Felix Auger-Aliassime. (Mark Blinch/CP)

PUNE, India — Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime earned a spot in the main draw of the Tata Open Maharashtra on Sunday with a win over Italian Gianluigi Quinzi in his final qualifier.

The 18-year-old Auger-Aliassime, seeded first in qualifying, beat the seventh-seeded Quinzi 7-5, 6-3 to advance to the main draw of the ATP 250 tournament that begins Monday.

Auger-Aliassime enters the Maharashtra Open — his first tournament of the new tennis season — ranked 109th in the world.

The Montreal native will play 39-year-old Ivo Karlovic of Croatia in the first round.

Karlovic, who turned pro the same year Auger-Aliassime was born, is No. 101.< [relatedlinks]

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