Félix Auger-Aliassime (born August 8, 2000) is a Canadian professional tennis player.
He has a career-high singles ranking of No. 6, which he achieved on November 7, 2022, making him the second-highest-ranked Canadian man in ATP rankings history and the fourth-highest-ranked Canadian player in history.
He has a doubles ranking of No. 60, attained on November 1, 2021.
He has won five singles titles and one doubles title on the ATP Tour, and was selected as the 2022 Canadian Press athlete of the year.
Auger-Aliassime began competing on the professional tour at a young age.
On the second-tier ATP Challenger Tour, he is the youngest player to win a main draw match at 14 years and 11 months old, and is one of seven players to win a Challenger title by the age of 16.
He is the second-youngest to win multiple Challenger titles at 17 years and one month, and the youngest player to defend a Challenger title at 17 years and ten months.
2012
In 2012, he won the Open Super Auray in the age 11 to 12 category.
2014
He has been a member of Tennis Canada's National Training Centre in Montreal since the fall of 2014.
2015
He also won the previous year's boys' doubles title at the 2015 US Open with compatriot Denis Shapovalov.
In February 2015, 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.
In late August 2015, he won his first junior G1 title with a victory over compatriot Denis Shapovalov in College Park.
At the US Open in September 2015, his first junior Grand Slam, he reached the second round in singles and won the doubles title with Shapovalov.
In October 2015, Auger-Aliassime and compatriots Denis Shapovalov and Benjamin Sigouin won the Junior Davis Cup title, the first time in history for Canada.
In December 2015 at the Eddie Herr International Tennis Championship, he won his second G1 singles title after defeating Alex de Minaur in the final.
US Open: W (2015)
2016
Auger-Aliassime had a successful junior career, reaching No. 2 in the world and winning the 2016 US Open boys' singles title.
At the junior event of the French Open in June 2016, he reached his first Grand Slam singles final where he was defeated by Geoffrey Blancaneaux in three sets, despite holding a championship point.
In July 2016 at Wimbledon, Auger-Aliassime advanced to the quarterfinals in singles and to the final in doubles with Denis Shapovalov.
At the US Open in September 2016, he won the boys' singles title with a straight-sets victory over Miomir Kecmanović.
He reached the doubles final as well, with fellow Canadian Benjamin Sigouin.
As a junior, he compiled a singles win–loss record of 79–19.
Junior Grand Slam results – Singles:
Australian Open: 3R (2016)
French Open: F (2016)
Wimbledon: QF (2016)
US Open: W (2016)
Junior Grand Slam results – Doubles:
Australian Open: 1R (2016)
French Open: 2R (2016)
Wimbledon: F (2016)
2019
On the ATP Tour, Auger-Aliassime made his top 100 and top 25 debuts at age 18 in a year highlighted by his first ATP final in February 2019 at the Rio Open, an ATP 500 event.
He reached three ATP finals in 2019, another three in 2020, and two finals in 2021, a total of eight consecutive runner-ups out of eight ATP finals as well as the semifinals at the 2021 US Open.
He is the one of only three players (alongside Novak Djokovic and John Isner) to force Rafael Nadal into a five-set match at the French Open.
Auger-Aliassime was born in Montreal and raised in L'Ancienne-Lorette, a suburb of Quebec City.
His father Sam Aliassime is of African descent and emigrated from Togo, and his mother Marie Auger is of French-Canadian descent.
His father was a tennis instructor.
He has an older sister Malika who also plays tennis.
He started playing tennis at four, and trained at the Club Avantage as a member of the Académie de Tennis Hérisset-Bordeleau in Quebec City.
