“He is the most famous person who’s ever texted me” Felix Auger-Aliassime recalls the text he received from Roger Federer
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Felix Auger-Aliassime was born on August 8, 2000. He is a Canadian professional tennis player. He is the second-youngest player ranked in the top 10 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), and has a career-high singles ranking of No. 9, which he achieved on 10 January 2022, and doubles ranking of No. 60, attained on 1 November 2021. He has one singles title and one doubles title on the ATP Tour.
He reached three ATP finals in 2019, another three in 2020, and two finals in 2021, a total of eight consecutive runners-up out of eight ATP finals as well as the semifinals at the 2021 US Open. He is the only player other than Novak Djokovic and John Isner to force Rafael Nadal into a five-set encounter at the French Open.
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Felix Auger-Aliassime discusses when Roger Federer congratulated him on his first title win this year
Felix is recently playing in the Hall of Fame Open which is held at Newport, Rhode Island. The too seeded Canadian has now entered in the quarter-finals of the tour by defeating Jason Kubler of Australia 6-4, 3-6, 6-5. The Aussie couldn’t hold on for long as the continuous aces from the Canadian changed the course of the game.
Felix in an informal interview at the tournament, admitted that Federer is one of the most famous person and said that he didn’t expect that he will receive a text from Roger who congratulated him after winning his maiden title this year. Federer and Felix both have met on one occasion at Halle Germany in 2021 ro16 where the Canadian dominated over the Swiss international.
“Roger, like, even though, he’s in tennis, you know, he’s definitely the most famous person that’s ever texted me. When I won my first title this year, he texted me and said that he was just very happy for me and congrats. And I thought, like, that was really nice. I didn’t expect that. The creepiest place I played tennis is actually in a church, the basement. They had, like, an open gym. There was a net, but it was so fast and just unplayable. You couldn’t play. So we played there once and then never again. Yeah, that was really strange. When I was in elementary school, the first year, I was, like, six. They asked, what job do you want to do later? And people would put, like, astronaut firefighter and me.It was just the tennis player. It would be pretty cool to have the things wrote, like, about tennis from a really young age. Just to put that, like, eventually when I finish my career” he said in the video posted by Hall Of Fame’s official Twitter account.
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