{"id":104427,"date":"2026-01-19T07:26:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/auger-aliassime-retires-at-the-australian-open-against-borges-due-to-cramps\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T07:26:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:26:44","slug":"auger-aliassime-retires-at-the-australian-open-against-borges-due-to-cramps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/auger-aliassime-retires-at-the-australian-open-against-borges-due-to-cramps\/","title":{"rendered":"Auger-Aliassime Retires at the Australian Open against Borges Due to Cramps"},"content":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013 Canadian tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime, seeded number 7, retired from his first-round match against Nuno Borges of Portugal at the Australian Open on Monday.\n\nBorges was leading 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 after just over two hours of play when Auger-Aliassime approached the net to shake hands with his opponent.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m fine, but I started suffering cramps at the beginning of the third set. It became very difficult to compete at this level. I tried for a set, but it wasn&#8217;t possible today.<\/p><cite>Felix Auger-Aliassime<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nThe 25-year-old Canadian tennis player added that he didn&#8217;t remember having suffered cramps so early in a tournament or match.\n\nIn other men&#8217;s first-round matches, Daniil Medvedev, a three-time Australian Open runner-up, defeated Jesper De Jong 7-5, 6-2, 7-6 (2), continuing his streak in Australia, which included a title in Brisbane. Tommy Paul, seeded number 19, defeated Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in an all-American match, advancing alongside Reilly Opelka and Andrey Rublev, seeded number 13.\n\nLocal favorite, Alex de Minaur, seeded number 6, defeated Mackenzie McDonald, a &#8220;lucky loser&#8221; from the qualifying round who replaced the injured former Wimbledon runner-up Matteo Berrettini, with a score of 6-2, 6-2, 6-3 in an evening match at Rod Laver Arena.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE, Australia \u2013 Canadian tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime, seeded number 7, retired from his first-round match against Nuno Borges of Portugal at the Australian Open on Monday. Borges was leading 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 after just over two hours of play when Auger-Aliassime approached the net to shake hands with his opponent. I&#8217;m fine, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[434,8175,5429,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-104427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-australian-open","9":"tag-felix-auger-aliassime","10":"tag-nuno-borges","11":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}