Felix Auger-Aliassime will win French Open, says former player
Louis Borfiga made a big prediction about Felix Auger-Aliassime's chances in the upcoming French Open. Borfiga said: "I think he will win Roland-Garros. I’ve said it often and I still feel that way because, when he was 16 years old he had already made the final (holding three championship points) of the juniors at Roland-Garros. I think his game-style fits well with clay – and at 18 he made the (ATP 500) final in Rio (in February). It makes me think he can win Roland-Garros because he is adored in France, and that’s a good sign for him because the people like him a lot. That’s why I think he has a great chance to win that Grand Slam.”
On the success of Canadian tennis, Borfiga concluded: "I think we were lucky to have players like Eugenie, Milos and Vasek who wanted to succeed and wanted to excel. And they wanted to show that it was possible, even if you were a Canadian. I remember, it was about four or five years ago – so there had already been the successes of Milos, Eugenie and Vasek – I got our coaches together and said to them that we really had to get going because I didn’t want people to say that we got lucky. We have to develop another generation to prove that our system is the right one. So, Milos, Eugenie and Vasek led the way and Félix, Denis and Bianca said to themselves that anything is possible – ‘they did it so we can do it.’ We had the same coaches, the same structure – and on top of that we found three youngsters who were exceptional in terms of talent and that was combined with the coaches who worked with them.”
from Tennis World USA http://bit.ly/2IYFkaE
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