From a photo-perfect Marrakech wedding two weeks ago to his return to the road to Turin at the Rolex Shanghai Masters, Felix Auger-Aliassime knew that something had to give.
“Honeymoon? This is our honeymoon, a honeymoon in Shanghai,” the Canadian joked this week with Atptour.com in China, where he is accompanied by wife Nina.
“We are here together and maybe later in the year there will be a honeymoon. But for now I of course have to go back to the tournaments, go back to work … but we still have a good time together.”
On 10th in the PIF ATP Live Race to Turin, Auger-Aliassime is only one place outside the eight-man cut for the Nitto ATP final, with ninth placed Jack Draper for the year due to an injury. Married to Nina on September 20, the 25-year-old will play his first game this week since his semi-final run at the US Open.
Thinking about the wedding of 120 people in the Selman Marrakech Hotel in the Moroccan home country of Nina’s father, Felix said that the memorable day was flawless.
“Everything was so positive … Many things could go wrong in a wedding, but it went well and the highlight of the night was probably the speeches,” said Felix, who introduced Nina during a vacation in Seychelles in November 2024.
“There is always a role during dinner where family and friends will give speeches and myself, my mother, nina’s sister, her father, they all gave speeches and it was the best and moving moment because you can’t speak often or there are not really the circumstances to speak in such a deep way. So that was really the highlight for us.”
A love that never stopped growing from the moment we kept an eye on each other, and will never?
September 20, 2025, our dreams became reality.
Photos: Rush Fawaz
Tuxedo: @DiorWedding dress: @Verawang
Location: @Selmanmarrakech pic.twitter.com/S2JyWSCE8D
– Félix Augeraliassime (@felixtennis) September 25, 2025
Nina, an accomplished equestrian sport, ensured that horses were shown during the wedding day, with guests sipping on sunset cocktails in between stables.
“She understood my world from the start and that helped our relationship because she understood the sacrifices of my life on the road,” said Felix. “She saw her father, all his life as a equestrian sport, go through that similar kind of sacrifice.
“But our sports are very different. We always laugh when I tell her:” I don’t let the horse run, I run myself. “But I think there are similarities in how technically healthy you should be in both sports. Tennis is a very technical sport and margins in equestrian sport and show that jumping are very small. So you also have to be very clean.”
Auger-Aliassime needs one victory in Shanghai to reach the 250 milestone of the career wins, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss index. He is 34-19 in the year, his best figure since his breakout 2022 season when his 60 victories led to his debut at the Nitto ATP Finals.
After experiencing the allure of the prestigious event, he would like a second taste.
‘I am extremely motivated [to qualify]”He said.” I started the year very strongly and then it was more difficult in the spring for a few months, but I had a great summer in America. There are always ups and downs, but it has been a positive year so far. So if I can make one last push the next month to secure my place in Turin, that would be nice. But I am not in it now, so I have to push some guys out. I have to play tennis really well and achieve many victories. ”
This year, Auger-Aliassricime exploded out of the gates with titles in Adelaide and Montpellier in the first five weeks of the season. A run to the Dubai final saw him return to the top 20 of the PIF ATP ranking.
But only one win in four ATP Masters 1000 performances in the run -up to Roland Garros, where he fell to Matteo Arnaldi in five sets in the opening round, saw him lose the momentum.
After some subtle repeat, he reached the Cincinnati Open quarterfinals, only to be trapped by Jannik Sinner, who only gave two games. But his run to the US Open Semi-Finales, where he went with Sinner Teen in a competitive quadter, catapulted him in Turin.
“They were not big changes I made, just a few things to adjust. I mean technically, I think my serve has improved all year round and then I was tactically more aware,” he said. “I think I didn’t play the clay in the right way or I didn’t really trust my game plan or I didn’t hesitate myself.
“But then I came back to the hard courts, and although it was not perfect, I was improving, improving, improving until the great US open. So hopefully I can keep that going.”
Thinking about his 6-1, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 loss for Sinner in New York, said Auger-Aliasassime: “It was a physical struggle with both of us sometimes struggling, mentally also to show the least weakness for your opponent. He certainly came from it. Encouraging.”
When Auger-Aliassim qualified for Turin in 2022 in 2022, it was on the back of a hat trick of titles in October: Florence, Antwerp and Basel, a crown that he successfully defended the following year.
With four of his seven career titles that come in October, the Canadian De Hoop has to close the extensive 630-point gap with eighth placed Lorenzo Musetti, who is very motivated to make his final debut on home floor.
Auger-Aliassime will open its Shanghai campaign against Alejandro Tabilo on Saturday.
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