At 14 years and 11 months old, he is the youngest player to win a main draw match on the ATP Challenger Tour.
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Felix Auger-Aliassime is a professional tennis player from Canada. He is the second-youngest player in the top 20 of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), with a career-high singles ranking of No. 9 on January 10, 2022, and a career-high doubles ranking of No. 60 on November 1, 2021. On the ATP Tour, he has eight runner-up finishes in singles and one doubles title. At a young age, Auger-Aliassime began competing on the professional tour. At 14 years and 11 months old, he is the youngest player to win a main draw match on the ATP Challenger Tour, and he is one of only seven players to win a Challenger title by the age of 16.
At 17 years and one month, he is the second-youngest player to win multiple Challenger titles, and at 17 years and ten months, he is the youngest player to defend a Challenger title. Auger-Aliassime had a successful junior career, reaching No. 2 in the world and winning the boys’ singles title at the 2016 US Open. With compatriot Denis Shapovalov, he also won the boys’ doubles title at the 2015 US Open. Auger-Aliassime debuted in the top 100 and top 25 on the ATP Tour at the age of 18 in a year that culminated in his first ATP final in February 2019 at the Rio Open, an ATP 500 event.
Despite being 2 sets to love up, Auger-Aliassime lost in the fourth round of the 2021 Australian Open to Russian qualifier Aslan Karatsev. Toni Nadal, Rafael Nadal’s uncle and former coach, was hired as a new coach in April, just in time for the clay-court season. Auger-Aliassime was defeated in the first round of the French Open by Andreas Seppi. In the 2021 Stuttgart Open final, he lost to Marin Cilic for the eighth time (out of eight final appearances). He reached the semifinals of the Halle Open by shocking 10-time tournament champion, 5th seed, and childhood idol Roger Federer in the second round, securing his fourth Top-10 victory (4-15) and one of his career’s most significant victories.
Frenchman Guillaume Marx played tennis professionally in the past. Marx was ranked 236 in the world for best singles. In 1993, he earned a spot in the main draw of the Italian Open (Rome Masters) and Swiss Open ATP Tour events. He participated in the men’s doubles main draw at the French Open in both 1993 and 1997 as a doubles player. Marx, who now resides in Canada, previously worked with Milos Raonic and is currently Félix Auger-Aliassime’s coach.
Former French professional tennis player Frédéric Fontang now coaches tennis players. Despite competing in seven French Opens, Fontang didn’t record a victory until his final attempt in 1997, when he beat Patrik Fredriksson in the first round. Later on, he took on the role of Jérémy Chardy’s coach and worked with him for 12 years. During this time, Chardy won the boys’ singles title at the 2005 Wimbledon Championships, took first place in Stuttgart’s ATP 250 tournament, and advanced to the fourth round of the French Open the following year. Felix Auger-Aliassime is currently under the tutelage of Fontang.
Tennis instructor Antonio Nadal Homar is from Spain. Toni Nadal is Rafael Nadal’s uncle and former coach, the older brother of Miguel ngel Nadal, a Spanish professional footballer, and the current coach of tennis player Félix Auger-Aliassime. Until Marián Vajda and his player Novak Djokovic won their 17th major championship together in 2020, he was the most successful coach in tennis history with 16 major titles won while coaching his nephew Rafael Nadal.
