Félix Auger-Aliassime

Félix Auger-Aliassime

Auger aliases

Nation:

Canada

Birthday:

August 8, 2000

Size:

193 cm

Weight:

88 kg

1st professional season:

2017

Playing hand:

Right, two-handed backhand

Trainer:

Guillaume Marx
Frédéric Fontang

Prize money:

$ 1,818,508

singles

Career record:

26:22

Highest ranking:

19 (August 19, 2019)

Current placement:

19th

Grand Slam record

Grand Slam title: 00000 0

Australian Open	1R (2020)
French Open	-
Wimbledon	3R (2019)
US Open	1R (2018, 2019)

Double

Career record:

0: 7

Highest ranking:

368 (January 7, 2019)

Last update of the infobox:
October 7, 2019

Sources: official player profiles at the ATP / WTA and ITF (see web links )

Félix Auger-Aliassime (born August 8, 2000 in Montreal ) is a Canadian tennis player . He won a single and a double Grand Slam title on the Junior Tour and reached second place in their world rankings. In 2015, he was the youngest tennis player ever - 14 years old - to win a match on the ATP Challenger Tour .

Life

Félix Auger-Aliassime is the younger brother of Malika Auger-Aliassime , who mostly plays on the ITF Women's Circuit . His father Sam Aliassime is from Togo , his mother Marie Auger from the Quebec area in Canada. Auger-Aliassime started playing tennis at the age of four and has been a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Center in Montreal since fall 2014 . He now resides in Monte-Carlo , Monaco .

Career

Junior Tour

Auger-Aliassime won the title of doubles competition in 2015 in his second junior year at the US Open alongside Denis Shapovalov . With the same he also won the first Junior Davis Cup title for Canada at the end of the year.

In 2016 he reached the final of the French Open , where he was defeated by Geoffrey Blancaneaux 6-8 in the decisive set. In Wimbledon , the Canadians Auger-Aliassime and Shapovalov again reached the final in doubles, but could not triumph again against Kenneth Raisma and Stefanos Tsitsipas . At the US Open he reached his third Grand Slam final in doubles, this time with Benjamin Sigouin , they lost in two sets. In the individual, however, he achieved his greatest success when he could clearly defeat Miomir Kecmanović in the final 6: 3, 6: 0, which he also rose to second place in the world rankings. Although the Canadian was able to play as a junior for two years, he has only played with the pros since the US Open.

2015

Félix Auger-Aliassime broke several records on the professional tour. At the age of fourteen, he became the youngest player to ever win a match on an ATP Challenger Tour tournament: on July 23, 2015, he won the Granby tournament in the first round against Andrew Whittington and in the second against Darian King , before he did lost to Yoshihito Nishioka . In March 2015 he qualified as the youngest player ever for a Challenger tournament in Drummondville , but had to cancel his first round match there due to an abdominal muscle injury. As a result of his success, he also became the youngest player to ever enter the top 800 (ATP 749). He is also the first player who was born after January 1, 2000 and was able to place in the ATP ranking.

2016

In 2016, Auger-Aliassime won no further matches on the Challenger Tour. On the lower endowed ITF Future Tour , however, he was able to win one title each in singles and doubles.

2017

In 2017, the Canadian won his first title on the Challenger Tour in Lyon . In the final, he defeated French Mathias Bourgue in straight sets. Thanks to consistently good performance including his second title in Seville on the Challenger Tour, Auger-Aliassime improved in the ATP ranking from 595th place (best placement in 2016) to 153rd place in 2017 (on October 16, 2017).

2018

In Budapest Auger-Aliassime won his first Challenger title in doubles in February. At the ATP World Tour 500 tournament in Rotterdam he qualified for the main draw of an ATP tournament for the first time and lost there in three sets against Filip Krajinović . Shortly afterwards he also qualified for the main draw of the Masters in Indian Wells , where he won the first round against Vasek Pospisil and thus his first ever match at ATP level. In the next round he lost to compatriot Milos Raonic .

Defending his title in Lyon gave him another record. As the youngest player, he managed to defend a title on the Challenger Tour. At the US Open , Auger-Aliassime qualified for the main draw of a Grand Slam tournament for the first time and competed in the first round against his compatriot and good friend Denis Shapovalov . After two sets, Auger-Aliassime had to give up for health reasons because of the extremely hot and humid conditions. In October he won his quarter Challenger title in Tashkent . He finished the year in 109th place.

2019

At the beginning of 2019, Auger-Aliassime achieved a breakthrough in the world rankings . In Rio de Janeiro ( World Tour 500 ) he reached his first final at the ATP level, where he failed in two sets against Laslo Đere . Nevertheless, at the age of 18, he became the youngest finalist in an ATP 500 tournament in history and made his first foray into the Top 100. He collected further ATP points at the Brasil Open (quarter-finals) and in Indian Wells (3rd round) , where he defeated a top 10 player for the first time with Stefanos Tsitsipas . This improved him to 57th place in the ranking.

He delivered a further improvement in his career at the Masters in Miami the following week . He defeated Roberto Bautista Agut (7: 6, 7: 6) in the round of 16 and Borna Ćorić (7: 6, 6: 2) in the quarter-finals . Together with the matches in the qualifying rounds, that was seven wins in a row and he also celebrated his fifth win in a row against top 20 players. This meant the improvement to 33rd place in the world rankings and another record as the youngest semi-finalist in the history of the tournament. He also became the third youngest semi-finalist in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament. In the semifinals he was defeated by John Isner .

In the further course of the season he improved to 22nd place in the world rankings. Before his first round match at the French Open, he had to give up due to an injury. After winning a three-set game in the quarter-finals against lawn specialist Dustin Brown , he moved into the final of the ATP tournament in Stuttgart without a fight , as compatriot Milos Raonic could not compete due to injury. He lost the final against Matteo Berrettini in straight sets.

He made his debut for the Canadian Davis Cup team in 2019 .

successes

Legend (number of victories)
Grand Slam
ATP World Tour Finals
ATP World Tour Masters 1000
ATP World Tour 500 Series
ATP World Tour 250 Series
ATP Challenger Tour (5)

singles

Tournament victories

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	18th June 2017	France Lyon (1)	sand	France Mathias Bourgue	6: 4, 6: 1
2.	September 9, 2017	Spain Seville	sand	Spain Íñigo Cervantes	6: 7 ⁴ , 6: 3, 6: 3
3.	17th June 2018	FranceLyon (2)	sand	France Johan Tatlot	6: 7 ³ , 7: 5, 6: 2
4th	October 13, 2018	Uzbekistan Tashkent	Hard court	Poland Kamil Majchrzak	6: 3, 6: 2

Final participation

No.	date	competition	Topping	Final opponent	Result
1.	February 24, 2019	Brazil Rio de Janeiro	sand	Serbia Laslo Đere	3: 6, 5: 7
2.	May 25, 2019	France Lyon	sand	France Benoît Paire	4: 6, 3: 6
3.	June 16, 2019	Germany Stuttgart	race	Italy Matteo Berrettini	4: 6, 6: 7 ¹¹
4th	February 16, 2020	Netherlands Rotterdam	Hard court (i)	France Gaël Monfils	2: 6, 4: 6
5.	February 23, 2020	France Marseille	Hard court (i)	Greece Stefanos Tsitsipas	3: 6, 4: 6