The 21st century
Canada · born Montreal, 2000 · twice Wimbledon quarter-finalist · Stuttgart finalist 2019 and 2021
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Best Wimbledon result, 2021 and 2026
5h 15m
Longest Wimbledon quarter-final, 2026
20
Aces against Djokovic, Wimbledon 2026
2
Grass finals, Stuttgart 2019 and 2021
No. 4
Career-high ranking, June 2026
Born in Montreal on 8 August 2000 and raised near Quebec City, Auger-Aliassime is the son of Sam Aliassime, a tennis instructor from Togo. He reached three tour finals as a teenager in 2019 but lost his first eight before winning Rotterdam in 2022. That year he won four titles and helped Canada to its first Davis Cup. Most of his nine titles have come indoors. He won mixed doubles bronze with Gabriela Dabrowski at the Paris Olympics in 2024, and in June 2026 he reached a career-high ranking of No. 4. In 2026 he reached the quarter-finals at 's-Hertogenbosch, Halle and Wimbledon, where Novak Djokovic beat him in a fifth-set tie-break.
| Wimbledon singles | Third round 2019; quarter-final 2021; first round 2022, 2023, 2024; second round 2025; quarter-final 2026 |
|---|---|
| Wimbledon 2021 | Seeded 16th, he beat the fourth seed Alexander Zverev 6-4, 7-6 (6), 3-6, 3-6, 6-4 in the fourth round, then lost the quarter-final to Matteo Berrettini in four sets |
| Wimbledon 2026 | Seeded 3rd, he lost the quarter-final to Novak Djokovic 6-7 (10), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) in 5 hours 15 minutes, the longest quarter-final in Wimbledon history |
| Grass finals | Stuttgart 2019, lost to Matteo Berrettini 4-6, 6-7 (11); Stuttgart 2021, lost to Marin Čilić |
| Halle | Semi-final 2021, after beating Roger Federer 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the second round; doubles final the same week with Hubert Hurkacz |
| Grass titles | None to date |
"Surely the best victory of my life so far."
The person behind the player.
Stuttgart 2019
Seeded seventh and ranked 21st, the Montreal teenager reached his third final of the year and the first on grass, after losing finals on clay in Rio de Janeiro and Lyon. Matteo Berrettini beat him 6-4, 7-6 (11), saving five set points in the second-set tie-break.
Source: CBC SportsMonte Carlo 2021
In April 2021 he added Toni Nadal, Rafael Nadal's uncle and former coach, to his team after approaching him in Mallorca. Toni said he had never considered working for anyone else, and that if Rafa had to lose to someone, "I would rather him lose to Felix." Three months later Auger-Aliassime reached his first Grand Slam quarter-final, at Wimbledon.
Source: Sky SportsHalle 2021
He and Roger Federer share a birthday, 8 August, and Auger-Aliassime is exactly 19 years younger. In their first meeting, in the second round at Halle, he came from a set down to win 4-6, 6-3, 6-2. It was the first time Federer had played an opponent born in the 2000s.
Source: Tennis MajorsWimbledon 2021 · Court One
He had lost all three previous meetings with Zverev without winning a set. After beating him in five sets under the Court One roof, he called it a dream come true for a regular person from Montreal, and said the noise with the roof closed was unlike anything he had experienced.
Source: TennisheadWimbledon 2026 · Quarter-final
Against Djokovic, aged 39, he saved two set points in the first set, came back from 0-2 in the fourth to force a decider, and hit 20 aces. Djokovic won the final tie-break 10-4 six minutes before the 11pm curfew and called it one of the best matches he had played on that court.
Source: ATP TourTogo · since 2020
Through his #FAAPointsForChange programme, set up with BNP Paribas in 2020, his results on court fund support for children in the Kara region of Togo, where his father comes from. In 2025 it added university scholarships in Lomé, and the ATP gave him its Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award for 2023.
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