Felix Auger Aliassime is a professional tennis player and the second-youngest player ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
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What is Felix Auger Aliassime nationality? Where is Auger-Aliassime from? Auger-Aliassime is a Canadian and he 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.
Auger Aliassime began playing tennis at 4 and trained at the Club Avantage as a member of the Académie de Tennis Hérisset-Bordeleau in Quebec City.
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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.
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 runners-up out of eight ATP finals as well as the semifinals at the 2021 US Open.
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