Who is Felix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s coach? Long-time mentor Frederic Fontang<\/a><\/p>\nQ. You\u2019ve shown in these four months you are one of the players who can hang to be the third one behind Carlos and Jannik. Do you think you can show it in Australia, too?<\/p>\n
FAA: \u201cFuture will tell. It\u2019s great progression I\u2019ve had this year. Like, I\u2019ve always believed, since I\u2019m a kid believed, and my ambition was to win Grand Slams and be No 1 in the world.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had ups and downs, but honestly through it all I always believed I could be there. I still believe today. Now it\u2019s a matter of, yeah, doing the right things to improve. If I do, we\u2019ll see where that leaves me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q. Is that the goal then for next year, close the gap to those top two and be a real factor at the slams again?<\/p>\n
FAA: \u201cEverybody\u2019s good. I can\u2019t just focus on these two. Everybody above me, below me, young guys coming up. It\u2019s high competition every year. You can have bad luck.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut of course when I play these guys right now, the facts are they\u2019re a level above everyone. Yeah, I\u2019m going to need to put some work. I\u2019ve never been afraid of some work, so it\u2019s all good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q. If you had to resume your season, what would it be?<\/p>\n
FAA: \u201cBack where I belong. Back where I feel like I can play with more consistency. Really happy to be part of this tournament, to have played that way in the last few months. Yeah, happy with the progress.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe journey goes on.\u201d<\/p>\n
Q. We all know how Carlos and Jannik play. Specifically on Carlos, what was the most challenging tonight?<\/p>\n
FAA: \u201cI mean, for a guy who was doing everything well, but I remember let\u2019s say three or four years ago, everybody was saying, The serve, the serve. He\u2019s serving crazy good. He did that amazing. The rest of the game has always been good.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can change directions with both shots. He puts pressure on you in a different way. You don\u2019t know what to expect. He\u2019s playing at a very high speed. I think that was most challenging.<\/p>\n
Q. Canada was a strong team in the past years in Davis Cup. Do you see yourself committing more for the Davis Cup in the future or, like many other players, you would like to change something, to play every two years, whatever?<\/p>\n
FAA: \u201cTwo things:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, I\u2019ve had success in the past. It\u2019s always a pride to play for my country. Many times I have to protect my health. I was injured or not healthy to play Davis Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other point, all I know is that to do something special, it needs to be rare. To do something special, it needs to be rare. Olympics, World Cup, it\u2019s every four years. If you have something every year, it\u2019s not going to be as special. That\u2019s it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The curtain has come down on Felix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s 2025 ATP Tour season with the Canadian losing in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-266891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}