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==Biography==
'''Félix Auger-Aliassime''' (born August 8, 2000 in Montréal, QuebecQuébec, Canada) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career high ATP singles ranking of No. 153 on October 16, 2017 and a career high ITF junior ranking of No. 2 on June 6, 2016. He is the youngest player ever to qualify (14 years, 7 months) and to win a main draw match (14 years, 11 months) on the ATP Challenger Tour. With his titles at the Open Sopra Steria de Lyon in June 2017 and the Copa Sevilla in September 2017, he became the seventh-youngest player in history to win an ATP Challenger title (16 years, 10 months) and the second-youngest to win multiple ATP Challenger titles (17 years, 1 month). Auger-Aliassime won the 2016 US Open junior singles title and the 2015 US Open junior doubles title with compatriot [[Denis Shapovalov]]. In June 2018, Auger-Aliassime successfully defended his title in Lyon, making him the youngest player ever to retain an ATP Challenger title (17 years, 10 months).
 
Auger-Aliassime was born in Montréal but raised in L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Québec City. His father Sam Aliassime is from Togo and his mother Marie Auger from the province of QuebecQuébec. He has an older sister Malika who also plays tennis. He started playing tennis at 4 and trained at the Club Avantage as a member of the Académie de Tennis Hérisset-Bordeleau in QuebecQuébec City. In 2012, he won the Open Super Auray in the age 11 to 12 category. He has been a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montréal since the fall of 2014. In 2015, Auger-Aliassime and compatriots [[Denis Shapovalov]] and [[Benjamin Sigouin]] won the Junior Davis Cup title, the first time in history for Canada. At the junior event of the French Open in 2016, he reached his first Grand Slam singles final where he was defeated by Geoffrey Blancaneaux in three sets, despite holding a championship point.
 
==ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Futures finals==