{"id":917340,"date":"2026-10-02T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917340\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T03:10:10","slug":"report-canadas-felix-auger-aliassime-hires-ivan-ljubicic-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/917340\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Canada&#8217;s Felix Auger-Aliassime hires Ivan Ljubicic as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime is reportedly turning to a man with an impressive track record to lead his coaching team.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian is hiring former world No. 3 Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia as his coach, Tom Kershaw of The Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/sport\/tennis\/article\/jannick-sinner-juan-carlos-ferrero-coach-carlos-alcaraz-6tk6p3h0f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">reported<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime, 26, ended his 10-year partnership with Frederic Fontang\u00a0in July.<\/p>\n<p>Ljubicic previously coached Canada&#8217;s Milos Raonic and Swiss legend Roger Federer during the latter portion of his career.<\/p>\n<p>Federer won three Grand Slams under Ljubicic after undergoing knee surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime, ranked fifth in the world, was eliminated in the second round at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal native lost a five-set quarterfinal to Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon and a four-set quarterfinal to Flavio Cobolli at the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s best Grand Slam showings are semifinal appearances at the US Open in 2021 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Report: FAA hires familiar name as coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime is reportedly turning to a man with an impressive track record to lead his coaching team.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-917340","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\/917340","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=917340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}