Félix Auger-Aliassime has not celebrated a win on clay since returning from injury at the end of April. His father Sam also believes that knee pain, which forced the Quebecer to miss the Monte-Carlo Masters, is not unrelated to the two setbacks he suffered in his first games in Madrid and then in Rome.
“Felix is like a train. “You can’t stop it,” said the long-time coach of the 10th world rankings after a press conference the link between the Aliassime Academy and the French bank BNP Paribas.
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Félix Auger-Aliassime, during his only game at the Madrid Masters, at the end of April.
“It’s a bit difficult coming back after an injury,” he also noted. When you return to competition, you have to reorient yourself. But there is no doubt that it will be replaced.”
Sam Aliassime will travel to his 22-year-old son in Lyon on Monday, where Félix has accepted an invitation from the organizers to play a little more tennis at Ocher before heading to Roland-Garros, the second major tournament of the season.
Félix, “complicated to follow”
Before last year and his round of 16 against a certain Rafael Nadal, whom he pushed to the limit of five sets, the Quebecer had never had much success in Paris.
But Mr. Aliassime doesn’t think clay causes any more trouble for his boy.
“My son is a very complicated player to follow! I explain to you: I remember [en 2019]He arrived on clay and dominated them all. “The Argentines imposed a style of play on the Spaniards,” said the director of the Aliassime Academy, referring in particular to the results achieved by the “FAA” in Rio.
“The next day it was written: ‘The New Way to Play on Clay,’ continued Sam Aliassime. Then, the following year, he did it all! It is therefore difficult to follow him. But what reassures me is that he had confidence in his abilities. He’s a player who can do everything, but can also do things nobody expects.