Felix Auger-Aliassime is celebrating his 100th career week inside the ATP Top 10 as the clay-court major approaches. The Canadian has reached the milestone in four separate stints: November 15th to 21st, 2001 (one week), January 10th to September 11th, 2022 (35 weeks), October 17th, 2022 to June 11th, 2023 (34 weeks) and October 27th, 2025 to present (30 weeks and counting).

Auger-Aliassime is currently at his career-high ranking of No. 5 and joins a small group of players born in the 2000s to accumulate triple-digit weeks in the elite. The draft notes he reached the mark “after exactly who you’re thinking.”

The milestone places him among the longest-serving Canadians to reach the Top 10. He becomes the second Canadian to log that many weeks at the top of the rankings, following Milos Raonic, who spent 151 weeks in the Top 10 across the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 seasons. Denis Shapovalov is the only other Canadian to have reached the ATP Top 10, spending 10 weeks there across 2020 and 2021.

The pattern of Auger-Aliassime’s tenure in the Top 10—multiple returns to the group rather than a single continuous stretch—highlights his resilience and consistency at the highest level. As Roland Garros nears, the 100-week marker is a reminder of his standing on the ATP Tour and of the depth of Canadian men’s tennis in this period.

Tommy Paul withstood a sustained late assault to survive a two-day second-round match at the Bitpanda Hamburg Open, saving seven match points to defeat Tomas Martin Etcheverry.

In March, Tommy Paul came out on the losing end of an epic quarterfinal match against Arthur Fils at the Miami Open as he failed to convert four match points against Arthur Fils before losing. That earlier result framed Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s drama in Hamburg.

The encounter ran nearly four hours and was suspended due to darkness on Tuesday. Paul saved match points on both days. Etcheverry served for the match at 6-5 in the second set and held two match points in that game before Paul broke to force a tiebreaker and won it to extend the match.

Then, in the decider played on Wednesday, Paul saved four more match points in the 12th game, this time on his serve, before again gutting out a tiebreaker where he saved the final match point down 7-6. He trailed 3-0 earlier in the final set, too.

The sequence underlined Paul’s resilience at a crucial moment in the clay-court swing. “Does it ever drive you crazy just how fast the night changes? He’s pulled off two wins from match points down since then.” That line captured both the rarity of the escapes and the quick reversal of fortune following his Miami defeat.

Paul’s victory over the Argentine advances him through the draw after an exhausting test of nerves and physical endurance. The match combined long rallies, late-night play and a suspension that split the contest across two days, offering a reminder of how momentum and recovery can decide closely fought matches.

Learner Tien closed out Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight tiebreak sets at the Gonet Geneva Open, defeating the 2021 Roland Garros finalist 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2). The young American’s win ended Tsitsipas’ Geneva run and left the former world No. 3 preparing for Roland Garros unseeded.

Tsitsipas had opened his Geneva campaign with an encouraging straight-sets victory over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard, but he failed to find critical consistency against Tien and finished his clay swing heading to Paris with a 4-5 record this season on the surface. The result also continued a difficult stretch for the 27-year-old, who has battled injuries and inconsistency in 2026 and dropped outside the Top 80 in the ATP rankings as of last week.

Reflecting on his recovery and outlook during a recent press conference at the Mutua Madrid Open, Tsitsipas said: “When I was injured I lost passion and love for the game,” and added, “I kept showing up though. Despite my injury in the back, I kept showing up on court and trying to make the most out of it. It’s frustrating when you’re always injured and you’re always feeling hurt. It doesn’t make you love the game too much.

“I can finally kind of say that, going back into the court now, it feels a really joyful thing to do. Like, there isn’t much of stress whether I’m going to be fit enough because of my back.”

Roland Garros has been Tsitsipas’ most consistent major: he reached the semifinals in 2020 and made quarterfinals in 2023 and 2024. His most recent run on the terre battue ended in the second round against Italian qualifier Matteo Gigante. Being unseeded at a Grand Slam for the first time since the 2018 Roland Garros opens the possibility of a tough first-round draw, where he could face top seeds such as Jannik Sinner, Alexander Zverev, or Novak Djokovic in the opening match.