Felix Auger-Aliassime has been on the rise since the age of 14, and his hard work is paying off big-time in Miami. With a straight-set win over Nikoloz Basilashvili on Tuesday, he becomes the first 18-year-old to reach the quarterfinals since Rafael Nadal in 2005.

He's the third-youngest Miami quarterfinalist behind Andre Agassi and Andy Roddick, and is two months younger than Nadal was in 2005 (the Spaniard would go on to reach the final).

After his third-round triumph over Hubert Hurkacz, Auger-Aliassime was guaranteed to become the first ever ATP player born in the 2000s to enter the Top 50. The Canadian's run to his first ATP Masters 1000 quarterfinal should come as huge surprise. He reached the Rio final last month and pulled off his first Top 10 win in Indian Wells, over Stefanos Tsitsipas.

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Still, the 18-year-old was ranked No. 108 at the end of 2018, and a career 6-10 ATP record. Since January, he's piled together a 13-6 ATP record. To top it off, the Canadian is also the first qualifier to reach the quarters since 2007.

Auger-Aliassime is used to making history. At just 14 he became the youngest player in history to win an ATP Challenger main-draw match.

"I think I have been dealing with this for the last couple of years, so I think in a way that's why I am able now to have these kind of results," Auger-Aliassime said. "Because this extra pressure, this attention that I gave maybe last year or the year before to the outcomes, to the media, that's a bit behind me now where I'm able really to stay in the present and really focus on what I have to do in the court, finding ways to win."

He will next next face Borna Coric for their first career meeting.

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