PARIS — Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime missed out on a golden opportunity to advance to his first Grand Slam title match after falling 4-6, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 to Italy’s Flavio Cobolli in quarterfinal action Wednesday.

The fourth seed from Montreal had a favourable path to the final after several highly seeded players fell to early upsets, including top-ranked Jannik Sinner.

But Auger-Aliassime once again met his match in the 10th-seeded Cobolli, who has won all three matchups between the players.

Auger-Aliassime looked to be in control after taking the first set and going up 3-1 in the second. But the Italian dominated the rest of the match.

Cobolli out-aced Auger-Aliassime 8-7 — a rare result for the six-foot-four Canadian — and converted five of 10 break points.

Auger-Aliassime had 11 chances to break Cobolli, but was good on just three.

Cobolli will face the winner of the late quarterfinal between unseeded Italians Matteo Berrettini and Matteo Arnaldi in his first Grand Slam semifinal.

Second-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany and 26th-seeded Jakub Mensik will meet in the other semifinal.

Auger-Aliassime became the first Canadian to advance to the quarterfinals of all four Grand Slams at this year’s French Open. he had advanced to two semifinals, both times at the U.S. Open, but has yet to appear in a major final.

Earlier, Canada’s Gabriela Dabrowski and American partner Evan King advanced to the mixed doubles final with a 7-5, 6-7 (6), 10-5 victory over Croatia’s Nikola Mektic and American Asia Muhammad.

The unseeded Dabrowski and King will face Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori in the final. The top-seeded Italians dispatched Germany’s Laura Siegemund and Edouard Roger-Vasselin of France in the other semifinal.

Dabrowski, from Ottawa, is also playing women’s doubles at the Grand Slam event with Brazil’s Luisa Stefani. The fourth seeds have reached the semifinals in that draw and will next play the top-seeded duo of Czechia’s Katerina Siniakova and American Taylor Townsend.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 3, 2026.