Felix Auger-Aliassime just delivered the kind of performance that makes you remember why you fell in love with tennis in the first place. The 25th-seeded Canadian took down third seed Alexander Zverev 4-6, 7-6(7), 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday night at Louis Armstrong Stadium, and frankly, it was about time we saw Felix back where he belongs. How did the match unfold?

The Moment That Changed Everything

Auger-Aliassime was staring down the barrel of a two-set deficit when Zverev held set point at 6-5 in that second-set tiebreak. Most players would have folded faster than a bad poker hand. But Felix? He channeled every ounce of frustration from his disappointing major showings this year and flipped the script entirely.

“I got a bit lucky in the tie-break that it went my way,” Auger-Aliassime sai

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