Félix Auger Aliassime

Early life

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.

2015

In February, Auger-Aliassime won his first ITF junior singles title at the G3 in Querétaro. A week later, he won his second straight ITF junior singles title and first doubles title at the G4 in Zapopan. At the Challenger Banque Nationale de Drummondville in March, Auger-Aliassime became the youngest player in history to qualify for an ATP Challenger main draw at 14-and-a-half-year-old. He defeated compatriot Jack Mingjie Lin, former World No. 67 Chris Guccione and World No. 433 Fritz Wolmarans to do so. He however was forced to withdraw before playing his first round match due to an abdominal strain. With the points earned, Auger-Aliassime made once again history as the first player born in the 2000s to have an ATP ranking.

At the Challenger Banque Nationale de Granby in July, he qualified for his second ATP Challenger main draw with victories over fellow Canadian Jack Mingjie Lin and World No. 574 Jean-Yves Aubone. He won his opening round in straight sets over World No. 493 Andrew Whittington, becoming the youngest player to win a main draw ATP Challenger match. In the next round, he scored the biggest win of his career to date when he upset World No. 205 Darian King in straight sets. He was stopped by World No. 145 Yoshihito Nishioka in three sets in the quarterfinals. After his run to the quarterfinals, Auger-Aliassime became the youngest player ever to break the Top 800 on the ATP rankings at No. 749. In late August, he won his first junior G1 title with a victory over compatriot Denis Shapovalov in College Park. At the US Open in September, his first junior Grand Slam, he reached the second round in singles and won the doubles title with fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov. In October, Auger-Aliassime and compatriots Denis Shapovalov and Benjamin Sigouin won the Junior Davis Cup title, the first time in history for Canada. In December at the Eddie Herr International Tennis Championship, he won his second G1 singles title after defeating Alex De Minaur in the final.

2016

At the junior Australian Open in January, his second Grand Slam, Auger-Aliassime was defeated in the third round in singles and in the first round in doubles. In May, he reached his first professional singles final at the ITF 10K in Lleida, falling to Ramkumar Ramanathan. At the junior event of the French Open, he reached his first Grand Slam singles final where he was defeated by Geoffrey Blancaneaux in three sets, despite holding a championship point. At Wimbledon, Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals in singles and to the final in doubles with Denis Shapovalov. At the US Open, he won the boys' single title with a straight-sets victory over Miomir Kecmanović. He reached the doubles final as well with fellow Canadian Benjamin Sigouin. In November, he won his first professional title with a victory over Juan Manuel Benitez Chavarriaga at the ITF Futures in Birmingham. The next week at the Futures in Niceville, he captured his first pro doubles title with partner Patrick Kypson.

2017

In January, Auger-Aliassime reached the final of the ITF Futures in Plantation, but lost to Roberto Cid Subervi in three sets. In March, he won the title in Sherbrooke over Gleb Sakharov, his second ITF Futures.