One of the biggest names in Canadian tennis is on a huge run — and climbing up the world rankings in the process.

Following his four-hour quarter-final win over Alex de Minaur at the US Open , Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime is well on his way to try to reclaim his former career-high ranking of No. 6 in the world.

Auger-Aliassime dropped his first set on Thursday, but ended up winning two tiebreaks to advance by a final score of 4-6, 7-6, 7-5, 7-6.

It is the second Grand Slam semi-final of the 25-year-old Montreal native’s career. In 2021, he faced off against Daniil Medvedev in the final four at the US Open, where he was the eventual champion.

“I tried to stay really calm. And honestly, I just believed that my level would come when I would need and that it would be able to step it up

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