PARIS – There is a price to be paid for playing 10 tennis matches over six days on the red clay of Roland Garros, which Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime will readily admit.

But the reward for the pain and exhaustion was tantalizing enough for the world’s 19th-ranked player singles player to persevere.

The 23-year-old from Montreal collected the first of two potential prizes early Friday evening, when he teamed with mixed doubles partner Gabriela Dabrowski to win the bronze-medal match. The pair defeated Demi Schuurs and Wesley Koolhof of the Netherlands, 6-3, 7-6 — in a match that ended up far closer than it needed to be.