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Unseeded Canadians Shapovalov and Auger-Aliassime reach US Open boys' doubles final
NEW YORK – They’re tired and pretty banged up. And they’re quickly running out of clean tennis kits. But Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Félix Auger-Aliassime are in the US Open boys’ doubles final.
Unseeded, in the first US Open of their junior careers, the two dispatched Stefanos Tsisipas of Greece and Louis Wessels of Germany 6-4, 6-4 to reach the final; they will play the American wild-card team of Brandon Holt and Riley Smith on Sunday.
Here's how they wrapped it up.
None of the seeded teams reached the quarter-finals.
“Obviously we didn’t expect to do this well, we expected to win a couple of rounds. We got pretty lucky with the draw, some seeds lost,” Shapovalov said. “But it’s not even that. I think we could have gone through the seeds, we’re playing some really, really good doubles.
“I think a lot of people are going to see this and be scared of us in Madrid,” he added, laughing.
The junior Davis Cup final for players 16-and-under take place in Madrid in two weeks; it’s hard to think the Canadian squad won’t have a good shot.
Holt has gotten a lot of attention this week at the US Open as the son of former US Open champion and current television commentator Tracy Austin. In fact, Mom followed son onto Court 7 Friday; after Holt and Smith won their doubles semi-final in a match tiebreak, Austin and partner Gigi Fernandez did the same against Martina Navratilova and Arantxa Sanchez Vicario.
It’s safe to say the rookie Canadians won’t be the ones with the pressure on their shoulders on Sunday.
They’ve already come up with a nickname for themselves: “Shauger”.
It’s a tough one, from a Canadian perspective; Shapovalov pronounces it “Shogger”; in Quebec, it would have to be “Show-zhay”.
We’re thinking “Félixalov” has a better ring to it.
The Canadian twosome first teamed up two weeks ago at a Grade 1 junior event in Maryland, where Auger-Aliassime beat Shapovalov in the singles final, and the two made the semis of the doubles.
“We were comfortable, we played well. The other thing is that we thought we’d get in as a team here. We wanted to play as Canadiens together, and we got in together because my ranking went up, so even if I didn’t qualify (in singles) we’d probably still get into doubles,” Shapovalov said.
“The two of us are, like, considered the top players, along with Benjamin (Sigouin, Auger-Aliassime’s mate at the national training centre in Montreal). The three of us, we should all play doubles together, to prepare for the next season’s team competitions,” Auger-Aliassime said.
After three weeks of hard-court tennis (four if you count the Canadian under-18 championship before that), the bumps and bruises are piling up.
Auger-Aliassime’s abs are taking a beating, and he’s been managing some knee pain since the tournament in Maryland. “I’ve managed. I’m still healthy. I can still play good tennis,” he said.
Shapovalov has had a shoulder issue since Maryland. “I always go back to what my mom says: the sport only starts when you’re in pain,” he said. “Every time I want to complain about my shoulder I remember that on the court, work hard, and push myself.”
