Auger-Aliassime hits 15 aces against Hernandez to advance to Los Cabos Open quarters | CBC Sports

Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarter-finals of the Los Cabos Open on Wednesday.

The Montreal native defeated Alex Hernandez 6-3, 7-5.

Auger-Aliassime hit 15 aces to Hernandez’s zero, while breaking the Mexican on four out of seven opportunities.

He will go head-to-head against American Steve Johnson on Thursday with a semifinal spot on the line.

Auger-Aliassime is the highest-ranked Canadian on the ATP circuit as the world No. 9 and is the second seed in the tournament behind world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev.

WATCH | Auger-Aliassime through to the quarter-finals:

Auger-Aliassime overcomes sloppy play to advance at Los Cabos Open

Felix Auger-Aliassime had a slow start to the second set but rebounded to get past Mexico’s Alex Hernandez.

Marino off to the quarter-finals

Canadian qualifier Rebecca Marino advanced to the quarter-finals of the Citi Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 win over Germany’s Andrea Petkovic on Wednesday.

Petkovic committed seven double-faults and converted just one of her nine break point opportunities in a match that took one hour 53 minutes to complete.

Marino was coming off a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 first-round win over former world No. 1 and seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams, who played her first match after more than a year away.

The 31-year-old from Vancouver will next face Daria Saville after the Australian beat top seed Jessica Pegula 7-5, 6-4.

In men’s action, sixth seed Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., was eliminated in the second round following a 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-3 loss to American J.J. Wolf.

Shapovalov fired 20 aces to Wolf’s three, but committed 12 double-faults and was saved just two of the seven break points he faced.

WATCH | Shapovalov runs into trouble:

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Denis Shapovalov was sunk by 12 double faults and multiple breaks to drop the three-set match to J.J. Wolf.