Félix Auger-Aliassime
Biography
Félix Auger-Aliassime (born August 8, 2000 in Montréal, Québec, Canada) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 103 on February 11, 2019 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). His three ATP Challenger titles are the second most for a player aged 17 and under. He is tied with Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro, and second only to Richard Gasquet who has five.
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 Québec. 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 Québec City. In 2012, he won the Open Super 12, one of the most important U12 junior tournaments in the world. He was a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montréal from 2014 to 2017. In 2015, he won the under-18 title at the Eddie Herr International Championships. Also 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 career finals
Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | Feb 2019 | Rio Open, Brazil | 500 Series | Clay | Laslo Đere (SRB) | 3–6, 5–7 |
ATP Challenger Tour finals
Singles: 5 (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Jun 2017 | Lyon, France | $75,000 | Clay | Mathias Bourgue (FRA) | 6–4, 6–1 |
| Win | 2–0 | Sep 2017 | Seville, Spain | $75,000 | Clay | Íñigo Cervantes (ESP) | 6–7(4–7), 6–3, 6–3 |
| Win | 3–0 | Jun 2018 | Lyon, France (2) | $75,000 | Clay | Johan Tatlot (FRA) | 6–7(3–7), 7–5, 6–2 |
| Loss | 3–1 | Jun 2018 | Blois, France | $50,000 | Clay | Scott Griekspoor (NED) | 4–6, 4–6 |
| Win | 4–1 | Oct 2018 | Tashkent, Uzbekistan | $75,000 | Hard | Kamil Majchrzak (POL) | 6–3, 6–2 |
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Feb 2018 | Budapest, Hungary | $75,000 | Hard (i) | Nicola Kuhn (ESP) | Marin Draganja (CRO) Tomislav Draganja (CRO) |
2–6, 6–2, [11–9] |
ITF Circuit finals
Singles: 4 (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| Loss | 0–1 | May 2016 | Spain F12, Lleida | $10,000 | Clay | Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND) | 6–7(1–7), 2–6 |
| Win | 1–1 | Nov 2016 | USA F35, Birmingham | $10,000 | Clay | Juan Manuel Benítez Chavarriaga (COL) | 7–5, 7–5 |
| Loss | 1–2 | Jan 2017 | USA F3, Plantation | $15,000 | Clay | Roberto Cid Subervi (DOM) | 7–6(7–4), 6–7(3–7), 0–6 |
| Win | 2–2 | Mar 2017 | Canada F2, Sherbrooke | $25,000 | Hard (i) | Gleb Sakharov (FRA) | 3–6, 6–3, 6–4 |
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
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| Result | W–L | Date | Tournament | Tier | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Win | 1–0 | Nov 2016 | USA F36, Niceville | $10,000 | Clay | Patrick Kypson (USA) | Patrick Daciek (USA) Dane Webb (USA) |
7–5, 6–1 |
Junior Grand Slam finals
Singles: 2 (1 title, 1 runner-up)
| Result | Year | Tournament | Surface | Opponent | Score |
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| 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 |
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| 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 February 25, 2019.
| Tournament | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | SR | W–L | Win % |
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| Grand Slam Tournaments | ||||||||
| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| French Open | A | A | A | Q2 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Wimbledon | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| US Open | A | A | Q2 | 1R | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 0% | |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0 / 1 | 0–1 | 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 | 2R | 0 / 1 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| Cincinnati | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Shanghai | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Paris | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 | 0 / 3 | 2–3 | 40% |
| National Representation | ||||||||
| Summer Olympics | NH | A | Not Held | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – | ||
| Davis Cup | A | A | A | A | 0 / 0 | 1–1 | 50% | |
| Career Statistics | ||||||||
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | SR | W–L | Win % | |
| Tournaments | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 13 | ||
| Titles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Finals | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hardcourt Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 4–7 | 0–1 | 0 / 8 | 4–8 | 33% |
| Clay Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 2–3 | 5–3 | 0 / 5 | 7–6 | 54% |
| Grass Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0 / 0 | 0–0 | – |
| Overall Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 6–10 | 5–4 | 0 / 13 | 11–14 | 44% |
| Win % | – | – | – | 38% | 56% | 44.00% | ||
| Year-End Ranking | 760 | 601 | 162 | 108 | – | |||