Thankfully his game has more accent than the Agut with whom we are most familiar.
The incompaireability of Benoit centers on that big serve; if he bombs at 60% plus he gets ahead on points from weaker returns that he can either put away from both wings or go a stroke or two further and then use his nice dropper touch. Easy holds let him relax a bit on return games and he can break enough to avoid TB roulette.
Do you think he has a chance for the ATP Newcomer of the Year?
The award rules state it is for the calendar year in which the nominee first entered the top 100. Félix was #109 at YE 2018 and if he was never higher than #100, he is eligible.Do you think he has a chance for the ATP Newcomer of the Year?
@vernonbc, @gogo did a great job explaining Félix's first name pronunciation in French, but just so you know, you can hear Félix himself pronounce his own name on his page on the ATP website: https://www.atptour.com/en/players/felix-auger-aliassime/ag37/overview
Just click on the speaker icon right below his last name. The ATP did this with a lot of players whose names do not originate from an English speaking area. There's just one of the players (can't recall who) who must have missed the point because he said his name with an English accent, ie as a native English speaker would say it if they had no idea.
He said the same thing about Denis a year ago.
Which constant stream of injuries? Let's see...
That's quite a list for a guy who is only 18. And it's impacted his involvement in slams. I fear a Delpo-like trajectory or worse.
However if the source of the issue has been identified and addressed properly, like with the tachycardia and wrist, then I wouldn't consider it an indicator for the future. Otherwise I would agree with you, but I fail to see how either of these two predict anything for the future, nor a rare blister. That leaves the knee and the adductor, but the latter is a minor injury, after all. It's the timing that's unfortunate.
I'm mostly worried about the timing since body management is so crucial for a tennis pro. For starters, he should not be playing the week before slam.
I will agree with you eventually, but he hasn't been able to string two wins in a row since Miami and he has only three months of full ATP experience. He also needed rhythm going into a slam and a smaller tournament like Lyon provided him with a great opportunity to go further, which he did. I feel the victory against Basilashvili was a confidence booster for Félix. He hadn't managed to beat Coric twice, but he did against Basilashvili in a very close match. I thought his Lyon performance was setting himself up as well as possible going into RG.
I could also say that it's no use preserving your body just in case at the cost of gaining valuable experience, either. This wasn't foreseeable. If he is still playing ATP 250 tournaments right before slams in a few years, when he regularly makes deeper runs, then no worries, I'll completely agree with you.
Oh, are you a tennis pro? Your situation is the same as Felix's? Do you have trainers and physiotherapists and specialized doctors looking after you? Good for you. Along with all your coaching expertise you have medical knowledge too. Quite a resume there.
Thiem played Lyon last year, winning the title. Made RG final.
Forgot to reply earlier, but I was somewhat kidding. Félix has about 500 points over Ruud at the moment, so I'd be really surprised if Ruud or any other player caught up (but good for them if they manage to!).
I guess that's why Sparlingo posted Tebbutt's tweet - it's a grade 1 tear. He's going to remain in Paris for treatment for the time being. Frankly, I wonder how people managed before physiotherapy existed. It's miraculous. Once I've hurt myself and the pain wouldn't go away on its own even after a few days. I couldn't get a physio appointment right away, so I retrieved old exercises I'd been given for what felt like a similar injury... Two days later, the pain was completely gone in everyday activities. Five days later, the physio couldn't even tell there was something wrong, and just about a week later, I was able to exercise again without pain. And I'm just a mere mortal, not an athlete surrounded by physiotherapists and fitness trainers every day!
Even though we don't agree, at least for this season, it never occurred to me that your point wasn't worthy of a discussion. You didn't derail anything.
That's about the best news we could have gotten!
@Rafa.the.Magnificent needs to hear Paire’s speech to help overcome her particular paireanoia called pogonophobia.I've never met Félix so I don't know how he is in real life, but it's been said for a while that the other players really appreciated him. It must be true, because did anyone catch Paire's speech yesterday, on top of the very warm handshake at the net after the match? He seems to really, really like Félix!
Forgot to reply earlier, but I was somewhat kidding. Félix has about 500 points over Ruud at the moment, so I'd be really surprised if Ruud or any other player caught up (but good for them if they manage to!).
I guess that's why Sparlingo posted Tebbutt's tweet - it's a grade 1 tear. He's going to remain in Paris for treatment for the time being. Frankly, I wonder how people managed before physiotherapy existed. It's miraculous. Once I've hurt myself and the pain wouldn't go away on its own even after a few days. I couldn't get a physio appointment right away, so I retrieved old exercises I'd been given for what felt like a similar injury... Two days later, the pain was completely gone in everyday activities. Five days later, the physio couldn't even tell there was something wrong, and just about a week later, I was able to exercise again without pain. And I'm just a mere mortal, not an athlete surrounded by physiotherapists and fitness trainers every day!
Even though we don't agree, at least for this season, it never occurred to me that your point wasn't worthy of a discussion. You didn't derail anything.
From what I've read and seen on videos (and it's a lot) from when he was 14, he's always gotten very complimentary praise. In fact it goes back even further as an elementary school teacher who's known him since he was six always raves about how lovely his family is and how Felix has been an exemplary student and a great kid. He's confident and has natural leadership qualities but is always polite and humble and smiling and respectful. I think the main reason he is so widely admired amongst his cohorts is the respect Felix has for the game and the tour and the other players, plus the fact that he's still so young (relatively) has them treating him in a little brother way.
I can also seldom remember any criticism.
Does he not have any shortcomings? He doesn't look like he needs the spotlight to exist, either.
Yep, fairly clean match for Felix. It was as good a start to his grass court season as he could ask for.
He’ll play Simon 2R, another 30-something struggling to find form this year. Simon’s match vs Gojo was a bit strange, losing the first set despite serving 5 of his 10 total aces before rallying more and bumping his 1st serve points won from a poor 57% to the low 80’s in the sweep of the last two sets. A solid returning Félix should take this on Thursday. If so, the QFs opponent will be either Zedraffe or Dreddy Brown.
saw the highlights...
