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US Open: with Auger-Aliassime and Fernandez, Canada moves the lines

2021-09-08T16:35:53.561Z


Félix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez point in the semi-finals in New York. Illustration of a fashionable nation.


Félix Auger-Aliassime, the hit of the summer

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As in 2014 at Wimbledon (Eugenie Bouchard and Milos Raonic), two Canadians will meet in the last four of a major tournament, since Félix Auger-Aliassime (21, seeded no.12) accompanies the sensation Leylah Fernandez ( 19, 73rd in the world) in the semi-finals of the US Open. Bianca Andreescu (titled at the US Open in 2019, 21 years old, 7th in the world) and Denis Shapovalov (22 years old, 10th in the world, semi-finalist of the last Wimbledon tournament) were ejected in the round of 16 and the 3rd round in New York, but the Canadian ambition planted by the French Louis Borfiga in 2006 (the technician found the French federation last March, as special advisor) still floats at the US Open.

Since adolescence, Félix Auger-Aliassime has been accompanied by the spotlight.

Like Rafael Nadal, he won the Super 12 d'Auray (in 2012), the benchmark tournament at world level for players aged 11-12.

Its potential, its lightning progress quickly made a "wonder",

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Source: lefigaro

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