Who is the Father of Félix Auger-Aliassime?

Félix Auger-Aliassime, born on August 8, 2000, is a Canadian tennis player. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of No. 6 in November 2022. He has won five ATP singles titles till date, all of them coming on indoor hardcourts. Auger-Aliassime’s best Grand Slam performance came at the 2021 US Open, where he lost to Daniil Medvedev in the semifinals. He has also advanced to the quarterfinals of both Wimbledon and Australian Open. Interestingly, he is one of three individuals (alongside Novak Djokovic and John Isner) to force Rafael Nadal into a five-set battle at the Roland Garros.

Félix Auger-Aliassime Father

Sam Aliassime, Félix Auger-Aliassime's father, is a tennis coach.

Sam Aliassime came to Canada from Togo through immigration, eventually marrying Marie Auger. Sam Aliassime ensured that Félix Auger-Aliassime developed an interest in sports at an early age. While ice hockey holds significant popularity in Canada, Auger-Aliassime opted for tennis. At the age of four, Sam Aliassime enrolled his son at the Académie de Tennis Herisset-Bordeleau in Quebec City.

In 2018, he bought the establishment, now named the Aliassime Tennis Academy. In a conversation with the tennis blog site Tennis Prose, Félix also recalled his earliest tennis memory, which involved practicing the sport alongside his father and sister. He reminisced, “Oh yeah – I started playing with my dad. So it was like doing drilling with my dad. (Tennis) takes all the co-ordination. I remember just playing with my dad and my sister in Montreal.”

What Does Sam Aliassime Do for a Living?

In the small West African country of Togo, a young man named Sam Aliassime aspired to be a soccer great before switching to tennis owing to left-foot difficulties. He eventually passed on his tennis enthusiasm to his son, who is currently No. 18 in the ATP singles rankings, as of June 2024. Sam Aliassime's influence grew even further when he founded a renowned tennis academy, Aliassime Tennis Academy, where he mentored emerging players from both local and foreign backgrounds.

According to Sam Aliassime, “In Africa, everyone plays soccer. Every time you see a boy, you see a ball. In my family, we were 11 boys, and because my father ran a hotel with a tennis court, we all played a little tennis. But nothing was more important than that soccer ball.” “In soccer, I couldn’t dribble or do much with my left foot. I always shot and got passes with my right. My coach said, ‘Sam, forget about a career in soccer. You’re not good enough with your left foot.’ I was discouraged, but then I took up tennis full time.”

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