MONTREAL \u2014 Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime expects to announce a new coach following this summer\u2019s U.S. Open after ending his 10-year partnership with Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fontang.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime spoke with reporters Thursday at IGA Stadium ahead of the National Bank Open presented by Rogers in his hometown.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old, currently ranked No. 4 in the world, will be the men\u2019s singles tournament\u2019s second seed behind French Open champion Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n
Top-ranked Jannik Sinner and 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic will skip the ATP Masters 1000 tournament for the second consecutive year. World No. 2 Carlos Alcaraz is also absent as he recovers from a wrist injury.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime is coming off a quarterfinal exit at Wimbledon, where he fell to Djokovic in an epic five-set match that lasted five hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
He announced after the grass-court Grand Slam that it would be his final tournament with Fontang.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime\u2019s father, Sam Aliassime, will accompany him at the National Bank Open, which begins with qualifying Saturday.<\/p>\n
He has won nine career ATP titles in singles, but still seeks his first victory at the 1000 and Grand Slam levels.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Open runs Aug. 23-Sept. 13 in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTREAL \u2014 Canadian tennis star F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime expects to announce a new coach following this summer\u2019s U.S. Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-836899","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\/836899","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=836899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}