Auger-Aliassime comes from a set down again, but far more comfortably, to reach the Roland-Garros third round

Félix Auger-Aliassime, the fourth seed, dropped the opening set for the second match running and again recovered to win, beating Argentina’s Roman Andrés Burruchaga 4-6, 6-0, 7-5, 6-1 on Thursday to reach the third round of Roland-Garros for the first time in two years.

If his five-set survival against Daniel Altmaier two days earlier had been an ordeal – 1-4 down in the deciding set, four hours and 17 minutes, the first fifth-set tie-break of the tournament – this was the controlled version of the same story.

The Canadian lost the first set, then took the second 6-0 in the space of a few minutes, the kind of momentum swing that suggested the hard-fought win in the previous round had settled something. He came through a tighter third 7-5 and ran away with the fourth 6-1. It was his 21st win of 2026 and his third time reaching the third round in Paris.

Favourable side of the draw?

Burruchaga, the world No. 68, had reached the second round when Sebastián Báez retired from their first-round match.

The result keeps the Canadian on the favourable side of a quarter that has lost its other leading names. Daniil Medvedev, the sixth seed who had loomed as a likely quarter-final opponent, was beaten in the first round by Adam Walton.

Auger-Aliassime will face the winner of France’s Luca Van Assche against American 31st seed Brandon Nakashima in the third round.