Who is Felix Auger Aliassime’s Coach in 2022?

Last Updated on August 19, 2022

One of the most talented players on the Tour and known for his calm demeanor and hard-working approach to the game is Canadian, Felix Auger-Aliassime.

Felix Auger-Aliassime was on born 8^th of August 2000 in Montreal, Canada. His father Sam Aliassime is emigrant from Togo, Africa and his mother Marie Auger is of French-Canadian descent. He started playing tennis at the age of five and trained at the Club Avantage as a member of the Academie de Tennis Herisset-Bordeleau in Quebec City. Felix became a member of Tennis Canada’s National Training Centre in Montreal since 2014. His tennis idols are Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, and favourite tournament US Open.

Who is Felix Auger’s Current Coach?

Since 2017 when he turned pro, Felix is under mentorship of French tennis coach Frederic Fontang.

Frederic Fontang was born on 18^th of March 1970 in Casablanca, Morocco. He was successful junior, won Petits As in 1984 and became French U16 champion in 1986. He started pro career in 1989 and during ten years until his retirement in 1999, he won only one ATP title in Palermo, Italy and one Challenger title in Merano, Italy. His best ATP ranking was No.59. After retirement Frederic started coaching career in Pau Pyrenees Academy in France.

There he met Jeremy Chardy and was his coach for 12 years until January 2011. When Jeremy first came to train at the Academy, Fontang gave him a gift, Paolo Coelho’s novel, The Alchemist.

“I gave him this book to read because the life of a tennis player is a lot of travel, you can win money, and you can see a lot of good things. But you need to know that the simple things are good also. It’s good to have dreams, in life it’s important, but sometimes you can have everything close.” said Fontang. 

During 10 years together, Chardy became 2005 Junior Wimbledon champion, won six Challenger titles and one ITF Futures title in singles, one Challenger and one ITF Futures title in doubles, his single ATP title so far at Stuttgart Open in 2009 and ATP title at 2010 Brisbane International in doubles. He also reached a singles ranking of World No.31.

From 2012 till 2016 Fontang coached Vasek Pospisil.

“He can compete with the best players because his body is very athletic. Now it’s in the mind, it’s confidence. Vasek has the personality for that.” said Fontang at the beginning of their collaboration.

For their time together Vasek didn’t have much success in singles reaching only one final in Washington, but was great at tournaments in doubles, winning Indian Wells, Beijing, Rotterdam, Atlanta, Basel and his biggest title in career so far, 2014 Wimbledon. He reached his best ATP ranking of No.25 in singles and No.4 in doubles.

Frederic Fontang became member of Felix’s coaching team since 2016 and his final lost among juniors in the Roland-Garros final. His added value to the team was immediately apparent, in September 2016, Felix won the Junior US Open with a straight-sets victory over Miomir Kecmanovic. Later that year he won his first pro title in singles at the ITF Futures in Birmingham and his first pro doubles title in Niceville.

The following year Felix made grater progress as a pro and achieved big success for his age. In March he won his second ITF Futures in Sherbrook and already in June he captured his maiden ATP Challenger at the Open de Lyon. In September he managed to win his second ATP Challenger at the Copa Sevilla and became the youngest player to break the top 200 since Rafael Nadal.

“The most important challenge with Felix is to stay patient and work on his development process. His talent will do the rest. It’s positive that great champions like McEnroe and Evert see Felix as a possible World No.1.” said Fontang

In 2018 Felix continued his improvement and Challengers success. Early that year he won his first ATP Challenger doubles title in Budapest and in June he successfully defended his title at Open de Lyon and became the youngest player in history to defend an ATP Challenger title. At the end of the season, he won Tashkent Challenger.

During 2019 he played three ATP finals and Davis Cup final but lost each one of them, and next year Felix claimed the doubles title at the Paris Masters.

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In April 2021, Toni Nadal joined the coaching team of Felix, ahead of the clay-court season.

Antonio Nadal Homar was born 21^st of February 1961 in Manacor, Mallorca, Spain. As a kid he trained football, swimming, and table tennis, and achieved the title of junior champion of Balearic Islands in his table tennis career. He started working as a tennis coach at a tennis club in Manacor and the majority of his coaching career from 1990 until 2017, has been spent with his nephew Rafael Nadal. During his coaching career achieved 75 singles titles and 11 doubles titles. Under his mentorship, Rafa, among other tournaments, won 16 titles at Grand Slams, 10 of which at French Open. 

As for Felix, during 2021 he keeps improving his potential under the guidance of both Fontang and Nadal. At Wimbledon he reached his first Grand Slam quarterfinal and in September at US Open he played semifinal against future champion Danil Medvedev.

Felix started his 2022 season playing for Canada at the ATP Cup where they defeated Spain in the final. These results lead him to highest career ranking ATP No.9 on 10 January 2022.

After a record of 0-8 in his previous finals, in February he managed his first ATP Tour title at Rotterdam Open by beating Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets.

“Just him being here is a huge source of motivation and more than anything, a source of confidence and trust for me and my team.” said Felix for his new team member.

“We wanted an outside eye, an experienced person. And Toni Nadal has the build for the costume we’re looking for.” said the Frenchmen about collaboration with Nadal in the coaching team.

Part of the team still working together for Felix to achieve the best results is fitness coach Nicolas Perrotte. Felix acknowledges that the physical improvements that have brought him so much success on tour, have not been built overnight and starts his everyday training routine with a session in the gym under the watchful eye of his fitness coach.

Nicolas also works as a Head National Fitness Coach at Tennis Canada based in Toronto.

Felix Auger Past coaches

Guillaume Marx

From young ages Felix was coached by Frenchmen, Guillaume Marx for six years.

Guillaume Marx (50) was born on 24^th of May 1972 in Mulhouse, France. His mother loved tennis and inspired him to take up the sport. As a tennis player he had a best ranking of 230 in the World and managed to win one Challenger title in doubles at Mallorca Open. In his own words “was not that good tennis player” and at 28 years old started coaching career with the French Tennis Federation. During that period, he coached players such as Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon and Josselin Ouanna. Under his mentorship, in 2004 Monfils won Junior Australian Open, Junior Wimbledon and Junior US Open.

In 2007 Marx started coaching at National Tennis Centre in Montreal, Canada where he served as Head Boys National Coach for 14 years. There among others he trained Milos Raonic, Vasek Pospisil, Brayden Schnur and Filip Peliwo who in 2012 won Junior Wimbledon and Junior Us Open. 

Marx was Felix’s coach since fall 2014 when Felix entered the Tennis Centre in Montreal. In 2015 Auger-Aliassime won ITF Junior titles in Queretaro, Zapopan and College Park and achieved his first biggest success as junior by wining Junior US Open doubles and Junior Davis Cup, the first time in history of Canada. Since second half of 2016 he coached Felix together with Frederic Fontang, until November 2020 when Marx and Felix parted ways.

“I am really proud of the longevity and the trust he has placed in me all these years. It’s rare on the circuit that we see this confidence as long as. From rank No.400 up to the top 20, it was incredible adventure and probably I will never see it again, at least I’m not sure at all.”  said Marx about the end of the journey with Felix.

Felix Auger Aliassime’s achievements with different coaches

We have collected in the table the data about the trophies won by Felix Auger Aliassime under the guidance of various coaches.