Félix Auger-Aliassime
Félix Auger-Aliassime (born August 8, 2000 in Montreal, Quebec, 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 Montreal but raised in L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City. His father Sam Aliassime is from Togo and his mother Marie Auger from the province of Quebec. 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 Quebec 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 Montreal 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
Singles: 7 (5 titles, 2 runners-up)
| Legend |
|---|
| ATP Challenger Tour (3–0) |
| ITF Futures (2–2) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 0–1 | May 2016 | Spain F12, Lleida | Futures | Clay | Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) | 6–7(1–7), 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2016 | USA F35, Birmingham | Futures | Clay | Juan Manuel Benítez Chavarriaga (COL) | 7–5, 7–5 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Jan 2017 | USA F3, Plantation | Futures | Clay | Roberto Cid Subervi (DOM) | 7–6(7–4), 6–7(3–7), 0–6 |
| Win | 2–2 | Mar 2017 | Canada F2, Sherbrooke | Futures | Hard (i) | Gleb Sakharov (FRA) | 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
| Win | 3–2 | Jun 2017 | Lyon, France | Challenger | Clay | Mathias Bourgue (FRA) | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 4–2 | Sep 2017 | Seville, Spain | Challenger | Clay | Íñigo Cervantes (ESP) | 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 5–2 | Jun 2018 | Lyon, France | Challenger | Clay | Johan Tatlot (FRA) | 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–2 |
Doubles: 2 (2 titles)
| Legend |
|---|
| ATP Challenger Tour (1–0) |
| ITF Futures (1–0) |
| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 1–0 | Nov 2016 | USA F36, Niceville | Futures | Clay | Patrick Kypson (USA) | Patrick Daciek (USA) Dane Webb (USA) |
7–5, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Feb 2018 | Budapest, Hungary | Challenger | Hard (i) | Nicola Kuhn (ESP) | Marin Draganja (CRO) Tomislav Draganja (CRO) |
2–6, 6–2, [11–9] |
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loss | 2016 | French Open | Clay | Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) | 6–1, 3–6, 6–8 |
| Win | 2016 | US Open | Hard | Miomir Kecmanović (SRB) | 6–3, 6–0 |
Doubles: 3 (1 title, 2 runners-up)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Win | 2015 | US Open | Hard | Denis Shapovalov (CAN) | Brandon Holt (USA) Riley Smith (USA) |
7–5, 7–6(7–3) |
| Loss | 2016 | Wimbledon | Grass | Denis Shapovalov (CAN) | Kenneth Raisma (EST) Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) |
6–4, 4–6, 2–6 |
| Loss | 2016 | US Open | Hard | Benjamin Sigouin (CAN) | Juan Carlos Aguilar (BOL) Felipe Meligeni Alves (BRA) |
3–6, 6–7(4–7) |
Singles performance timeline
This table is current as of April 23, 2018.
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | SR | W–L | Win % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Slam Tournaments | |||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| French Open | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| US Open | A | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| ATP World Tour Masters 1000 | |||||||
| Indian Wells | A | A | A | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% |
| Miami | A | A | A | Q1 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Monte-Carlo | A | A | A | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Madrid | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Rome | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Canada | A | Q1 | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Shanghai | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Paris | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 0 / 2 | 1–2 | 33% |
| Career Statistics | |||||||
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | SR | W–L | Win % | |
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hardcourt Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0 / 3 | 1–3 | 25% |
| Clay Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% |
| Grass Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Overall Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–4 | 0 / 4 | 1–4 | 20% |
| Win % | – | – | – | 20% | 20.00% | ||
| Year-End Ranking | 760 | 601 | 162 | – | |||