{"id":245011,"date":"2025-09-21T23:37:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245011\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T23:37:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T23:37:15","slug":"jimmy-connors-tells-felix-auger-aliassime-what-he-must-do-now-following-his-impressive-run-at-the-us-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/245011\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Connors\u00a0tells\u00a0Felix Auger-Aliassime\u00a0what he must do now\u00a0following his impressive run at the US Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Felix Auger-Aliassime saw his ATP ranking soar to 13th in the world after a phenomenal run at the US Open, the highest he has been in two years. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Canadian, whose career has stagnated in recent seasons, recorded his best finish at a major since 2021 at Flushing Meadows when he reached the semifinals. <\/p>\n<p>En route to the final four, he knocked out seeded stars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/alexander-zverev\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alexander Zverev<\/a>, Andrey Rublev, and Alex de Minaur, before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/news\/felix-auger-aliassime-gives-his-opinion-on-the-atmosphere-on-arthur-ashe-during-his-us-open-semifinal-with-jannik-sinner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auger-Aliassime fell to eventual runner-up Jannik Sinner<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the loss to the Italian, the US Open marked a much-needed turning point in the 25-year-old\u2019s career, which tennis legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/jimmy-connors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Connors<\/a> says he now has to build on. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GettyImages-2232944218-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Felix Auger-Aliassime celebrates after beating Alexander Zverev at the 2025 US Open\" class=\"wp-image-125839\" \/>Photo by Mike Stobe\/Getty ImagesFelix Auger-Aliassime told how he must build on his US Open run<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the \u2018Advantage Connors\u2019 podcast, the eight-time Grand Slam champion said: \u201cFAA, who got to the semis, had a great tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe can\u2019t think that \u2018I got to the semis of the US Open. I can live off that.\u2019 They have got to get over that. Because they are not winning it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to think that\u2019s a great stepping stone, a springboard. Now it\u2019s time for me to really take off. And he\u2019s a young kid too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have got to treat every match and tournament and opportunity that you have as if it\u2019s your last, because you never know how long it\u2019s going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The story of Felix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s 2025 ATP season so far<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/felix-auger-aliassime-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Auger-Aliassime<\/a> got his season on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetennisgazette.com\/tag\/atp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ATP<\/a> Tour off to a perfect start, winning the first event of the year in Adelaide. <\/p>\n<p>Despite a second-round exit at the Australian Open, he then clinched his second title of 2025 in Montpellier, before enjoying a largely successful trip to the Middle East, reaching the semifinals in Qatar and the final in Dubai. <\/p>\n<p>After that, however, Auger-Aliassime underwent a poor run of form, crashing out in the early stages of several competitions, picking up just three wins during the entirety of the clay season. <\/p>\n<p>Following an up-and-down grass swing, in recent months, he has made the quarterfinals of the Canadian Open and the semifinals in New York. <\/p>\n<p>Heading into the Asian swing, Auger-Aliassime will hope to add more points to his tally in the \u2018Race to Turin\u2019, in the hope of qualifying for the year-end ATP Finals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Felix Auger-Aliassime saw his ATP ranking soar to 13th in the world after a phenomenal run at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":245012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,10642,14188,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-245011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-felix-auger-aliassime","10":"tag-jimmy-connors","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115244921681474949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}