Next week, Montreal tennis star Felix Auger-Aliassime is set to compete in his eighth straight singles main draw at the 2025 U.S. Open Tennis Championships.

But despite a lengthy list of accolades, including an Olympic bronze medal and seven singles titles on the ATP Tour, it's his community outreach in his father's home country of Togo that the tennis star wants the attention focused on.

In the late 1990s, the 25-year-old Felix's father, Sam Aliassime, immigrated from the West African nation when he was around the same age as his son is right now.

"You're there [in Togo and] even if you have a dream and you want it, you're stuck by the circumstances of your environment," he told CBC Sports. "And he comes to Canada, steps foot, and everything is possible here, if I work hard and I reall

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