--- title: Felix Auger Aliassime Retires From U.S. Open Due to Heat description: Canadian tennis player Felix Auger-Aliassime was forced to pull out of the U.S. Open due to health concerns brought on by the heat. canonical: https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-28T15:23:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:32.896Z og:title: U.S. Open Rivals Hug It Out in Emotional Embrace og:description: The Canadian tennis player pulled out of his debut match in the third set og:url: https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: U.S. Open Rivals Hug It Out in Emotional Embrace twitter:description: The Canadian tennis player pulled out of his debut match in the third set twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # U.S. Open Player Hugs It Out With Rival After He Was Forced to Retire > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 28, 2018 3:23 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 28, 2018 3:23 PM UTC Canadian [tennis player](http://time.com/5303055/andre-agassi-foundation-tennis-french-open/) Felix Auger-Aliassime was forced to pull out of the first-round of the [2018 U.S. Open](http://time.com/5375705/sloane-stephens/) due to health concerns brought on by the heat. After splitting the first two sets of his opening match with fellow Canadian Denis Shapovalov on Monday, Auger-Aliassime tearfully retired from the tournament in the midst of the third set. The 18-year-old was [suffering from tachycardia](http://www.tennisnow.com/News/2018/August/Felix-Auger-Aliassime-Retires-Against-Shapovalov-D.aspx) —a.k.a. an [elevated heart rate](http://time.com/4969707/watching-sports-heart-risk/)—a condition that previously forced him to drop out of a 2017 Challenger event and is often exacerbated by heat. Auger-Aliassime was clearly distraught over the results of his U.S. Open debut. However, Shapovalov was nothing but supportive of his opponent and even shared an emotional embrace with him at the net. “It’s actually really tough to see him going out like this,” [Shapovalov said](https://twitter.com/ReemAbulleil/status/1034226322648657920). “I told him at the net we’re going to be back here, we’re going to play so many of these.” > [](https://twitter.com/TennisChannel/status/1034232973825064965) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/"},"headline":"U.S. Open Player Hugs It Out With Rival After He Was Forced to Retire","datePublished":"2018-08-28T15:23:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:32.896Z","description":"The Canadian tennis player pulled out of his debut match in the third set","url":"https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/","keywords":["Newsfeed","tennis"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5380134/us-open-2018-felix-auger-aliassime/","name":"U.S. Open Player Hugs It Out With Rival After He Was Forced to Retire"}}]}] ```