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It All Adds Up: Why Felix Auger-Aliassime is ‘Mr. Clutch’
Canadian led the Tour in tie-break win percentage and number of deciding-set wins
January 17, 2026
ATP
Felix Auger-Aliassime is an eight-time tour-level titlist.
By ATP Staff
During the Australian Open, ATPTour.com will bring fans insight into the leaders of key statistical categories, showing how performances throughout 2025 all added up to successful seasons and the promise of more good times ahead in 2026.
In 2025, Felix Auger-Aliassime emerged as one of the most clutch players on the ATP Tour — a man who seems to thrive when matches are on the line.
The Canadian finished the year having won a Tour-leading 69.6 per cent (32/46) of tie-breaks played, as well as prevailing in a season-best 20 deciding-set matches. That kind of nerve and execution under pressure turned tight situations into titles — in Adelaide, Montpellier and Brussels — while he also rose to a career-high No. 5 in the PIF ATP Rankings.
Felix attributed his dramatic turnaround in tie-breaks to a strong year on serve and the confidence from winning more matches. “The consistency of the serve is huge at the end of sets, deciding sets and pressure moments,” he said. “I was able to come up with good serves most of the time when I needed to.
“And then I think it’s just overall confidence. You just have this feeling when you’re on a streak of wins or when you’ve been in a lot of those tight situations, you feel like you are going to have the positive outcome in a way. You feel that you’re not going to miss before the other guy.”
Felix Auger-Aliassime‘s tie-break and deciding-set record
| Season | Tie-Break W-L | Deciding-Set WL |
| 2025 | 32-14 | 20-7 |
| 2024 | 6-10 | 10-13 |
Auger-Aliassime’s clutch DNA came up big against Alex de Minaur in the quarter-finals at the US Open. The 25-year-old dropped the first set but stayed unruffled for a 4-6, 7-6(7), 7-5, 7-6(4) victory to reach his first major semi-final since 2021.
“A big tie-break win for me last year was the fourth set against De Minaur in the US Open quarters,” he said. “It was really tight. If I drop that then it’s off to a fifth set and you don’t know what might happen, I might not have made the semis. So that was very clutch.”
In 2024, Auger-Aliassime notched a negative record in both tie-breaks (6-10) and deciding sets (10-13), but the turnaround from that campaign to 2025 was dramatic. It also played a key part in his end-of-year surge towards qualification for the Nitto ATP Finals for the first time since 2022. Auger-Aliassime transformed himself into one of the Tour’s most reliable finishers under pressure.
What is Felix’s mindset as he heads into a tie-break?
“I have an aggressive game style, so I don’t change any of that,” he said. “When you get to the tie-break, you’ve played 12 games during the set, so you know the favourite patterns of your opponent. So I try to remember those favourite patterns and then try to focus on my serve, try to make as many first serves as possible.
“The last thing is just to never complain. You don’t really have time, you have to reset quickly. You might turn at 4-2 down, but you have to stay steady. You never know. One point can change everything in the tie-break. And for me, you can’t allow yourself to show any negativity.”
In short: 2025 wasn’t just about titles or PIF ATP Rankings points — it was about proving he can deliver when every point counts. On those nights where matches teetered on a knife’s edge, Auger-Aliassime was the man who could be trusted to sharpen it and strike.
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