{"id":793755,"date":"2026-07-10T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793755\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:43:09","slug":"canadian-tennis-star-felix-auger-aliassime-fires-longtime-coach-frederic-fontang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793755\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime fires longtime coach Frederic Fontang"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canadian tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime has fired coach Frederic Fontang after 10 years.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime made the announcement in a social media post on Friday.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Auger-Aliassime says he wishes Fontang “nothing but the very best” in his future endeavours.<\/p>\n

“I want to express my deepest respect, gratitude, and admiration for his dedication and the passion he brought every single day to helping me achieve my goals,” said Auger-Aliassime in both English and French. “Since I was 16 years old, he has guided my development and helped me experience incredible moments through this sport.<\/p>\n

“He has also been by my side during the toughest moments of my career. In those difficult times, I always found in him the calm, composure, and wisdom I needed to overcome those challenges.”<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime was bounced from the Wimbledon quarterfinals by Serbia’s Novak Djokovic 6-7 (10), 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime was the Grand Slam event’s third seed, and Djokovic was seventh.<\/p>\n

The Montreal native is currently fourth on the ATP Tour’s rankings.<\/p>\n

He is set to compete at the National Bank Open in his hometown from Aug. 1-13.<\/p>\n

“Looking back today, I can say that beyond being an outstanding coach, (Fontang) has been a true mentor throughout my journey into adulthood,” said Auger-Aliassime. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-793755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}