Auger-Aliassime honest after Rune defeat ends run: "He kind of exposed weaknesses in my game"

Felix Auger-Aliassime's 16-match winning streak ended with Holger Rune beating the Canadian in straight sets in Paris.

It's been an incredible 30 days for Auger who won 3 trophies in three consecutive weeks and almost made it to another final in Paris. Rune attacked Auger consistently and exposed some of the weaknesses in his game which is how Felix described the match as well.

Speaking after the loss, he said:

“Had I won today, had I won tomorrow, I would be in heaven. It would be great to win. [But] throughout my career, I have always tried to draw lessons from my failures. As I said recently during the US Open, I lost early, it was disappointing, but I managed to overturn this into something positive."

On the match itself, Auger added:

“I feel like because of the way he [Rune] was playing and how good he was playing, I have to give him a lot of credit. He kind of exposed weaknesses in my game. He was just playing so aggressively without missing. I haven't seen or I haven't played many players that were this aggressive and hitting that hard, that deep. It was just exposing the fact that I couldn't manage to establish my game plan on the court and feel good and play two, three good points in a row."