Félix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the semifinals of the Paris Masters tennis tournament and picked up crucial points in his bid to qualify for the year-ending ATP Finals.

Auger-Aliassime moved on with a 6-2, 6-2 win over wild card Valentin Vacherot of Monaco on Friday and will face either sixth-seed Alex de Minaur of Australia or 23rd-seed Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the final four.

The win over the in-form Vacherot also moved Auger-Aliassime just 90 points behind Lorenzo Musetti in the race for the eighth and final berth at the ATP Finals, which kicks off next month in Turin, Italy. A semifinal win would move Auger-Aliassime past the Italian, who lost in the second round in Paris.

Auger-Aliassime had been grinding out three-set wins and fighting through tiebreaks heading into the

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