ATP Race Update: Felix Auger-Aliassime suddenly retires against Jaume Munar in Basel as Alexander Zverev seals qualification

Friday, 24 October 2025 at 16:46

Felix Auger-Aliassime has seen his hopes of qualifying for the year end ATP Finals be severely dented as he retired suddenly at Swiss Indoors in Basel after losing the first set.

Auger-Aliassime was trailing 3-6 when he walked to the net and ended proceedings after just 45 minutes in the ATP 500 tournament. While at first it looked somewhat bizarre, he looked to have tweaked his lower back as he spent time stretching it out throughout the Quarter-Final.

This was made all stranger by the fact that he lifted the trophy in Brussels last week to move to ninth in the ATP Race. He is 340 points behind eighth placed Lorenzo Musetti who occupies the final Qualification spot. Musetti is in Quarter-Final action on Friday against Corentin Moutet.

Auger-Aliassime is hoping to make his second appearance in the event having competed in 2022 but it seems that time is running out and he will need a good run in Paris next week to achieve what he needs to.

While Alexander Zverev has already qualified. After a walk-over against Tallon Griekspoor he is through to the semi-finals and will as a result take his spot in Turin. Alex de Minaur also won early in Vienna seeing off Matteo Berrettini 6-1, 7-6.

Denis Shapovalov and Joao Fonseca are currently embroiled in a final set in Basel as of time of writing with Ruud and Sinner to come from Basel and Vienna respectively tonight.

How ATP Race currently shakes up after Auger-Aliassime retirement

#	Player	Age	Ctry	Pts	+/-
1	✓ Carlos Alcaraz	22	ESP	11,040
2	✓ Jannik Sinner	24	ITA	8,600
3	✓ Novak Djoković	38	SRB	4,580
4	✓ Alexander Zverev	28	GER	4,430
	ATP Finals Qualification Cut →			4,400
5	Taylor Fritz	27	USA	3,835
6	Ben Shelton	23	USA	3,770
7	Alex de Minaur	26	AUS	3,735
8	Lorenzo Musetti	23	ITA	3,575
9	Félix Auger-Aliassime	25	CAN	3,195
10	✗ Jack Draper	23	GBR	2,990
11	Casper Ruud	26	NOR	2,825
12	✗ Holger Rune	22	DEN	2,590
13	Daniil Medvedev	29	RUS	2,560
14	Alexander Bublik	28	KAZ	2,470	+1
15	Andrey Rublev	28	RUS	2,420	-1
16	Alejandro Davidovich Fokina	26	ESP	2,325	+1
17	✗ Jiří Lehečka	23	CZE	2,315	-1
18	✗ Karen Khachanov	29	RUS	2,220
19	✗ Jakub Menšík	20	CZE	2,180
20	✗ Tommy Paul	28	USA	2,100

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