Felix Auger-Aliassime won another Challenger this weekend and his ranking has skyrocketed to #168. He has now won the exact same number of Challengers (2) as Shapovalov.
He becomes the 3rd player to win multiple Challenger titles by the age of 17 (after Gasquet and Nadal).
He's also the youngest player in the top 200 since Nadal in 2002.
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Felix Auger-Aliassime's victory in a Challenger tournament in Seville, Spain last week moved the 17-year-old into the world's top 200 at No. 168 on Monday, only a month after the 18-year-old Shapovalov cracked the top 100 with his run to the semifinals of the Rogers Cup in Montreal.
Auger-Aliassime, from Montreal, became the youngest player to reach the top 200 since Rafael Nadal in 2002. And his progress is well ahead of the No. 245 ranking that Shapovalov held as a 17-year-old last September.
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http://www.cbc.ca/sports/tennis/feli...king-1.4284896