{"id":836084,"date":"2026-07-30T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836084\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:56:17","slug":"young-tennis-players-to-challenge-felix-auger-aliassime-ahead-of-tournament-in-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836084\/","title":{"rendered":"Young tennis players to challenge F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime ahead of tournament in Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever dream of playing tennis against one of the world\u2019s top competitors?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what some young tennis players will get the chance to do ahead of the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Aspiring tennis players from Rogers First Set in Quebec will hit the court at IGA Stadium with Montreal\u2019s own F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The young athletes will play quick rallies and serve up challenges to Auger-Aliassime on a Rogers mini court ahead of the tournament in Montreal, where he will be seeded second \u2013 making him the highest-seeded Canadian in the tournament\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s event is a celebration of the 25-year-old Auger-Aliassime, who is a Team Rogers athlete, but also of the next generation of tennis talent.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"880\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/rogers-3.png\" alt=\"F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime\" class=\"wp-image-365004\" style=\"width:1027px;height:auto\"  \/>Canadian professional tennis player F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime participates in the Rogers\u2019 Youth Clinic in Montreal, August 6 2024. (Gareth Madoc-Jones, CityNews Image)<\/p>\n<p>There will be a special guest appearance by actor and Rogers ambassador Patrice Robitaille, who will share a \u201cmatch point\u201d moment with Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers First Set, Tennis Canada\u2019s national participation program, is designed to introduce and engage youth in tennis.<\/p>\n<p>The National Bank Open takes place from Aug. 1-13 in the hometown of the world\u2019s fourth-ranked Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>Rogers is the parent company of CityNews.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Montreal as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=montreal.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782077411_500_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ever dream of playing tennis against one of the world\u2019s top competitors? That\u2019s what some young tennis players&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-836084","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\/836084","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=836084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}