{"id":7916,"date":"2025-07-20T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7916\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T07:44:08","slug":"shapovalov-captures-los-cabos-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/7916\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapovalov captures Los Cabos title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/our-features\/lists-our-features\/denis-shapovalov-junior-wimbledon-youzhny-rap-musician-10-questions-you-may-have-about-the-canadian-286548.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denis Shapovalov<\/a> continued his resurgent 2025 season with a dominant performance in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/competitions\/mifel-tennis-open-by-telcel-oppo-2025-mens-singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Cabos<\/a>, defeating American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/people\/aleksandar-kovacevic\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleksandar Kovacevic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/matches\/atp\/abierto-de-tenis-mifel\/aleksandar-kovacevic-vs-denis-shapovalov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-2, 6-4<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s final to win the ATP 250 title. The seventh-seeded Canadian didn\u2019t drop a set all week and sealed the championship in just 61 minutes at the Cabo Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">The victory marks Shapovalov\u2019s second ATP title of the year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/atp\/shapovalov-completes-epic-dallas-run-earning-three-top-10-wins-en-route-to-biggest-career-title-807757.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following his triumph at the ATP 500 event in Dallas<\/a> in February. It also brings his career total to four titles (4-6 in finals), and notably, his first on outdoor hard courts, with previous trophies all coming indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">Shapovalov is the sixth man to win multiple tour-level titles this season after Alcaraz, Auger-Aliassime, Cobolli, Fritz and Sinner. He joins join Humbert (Marseille), Fritz (Stuttgart) and Griekspoor<br \/>(Mallorca) as only ATP Tour champions in 2025 without dropping a set.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Now back in the Top 30 and aged 26, Shapovalov produced a week of consistent, high-level tennis. In the final, he landed six aces, won 81% of his first-serve points, and saved the only break point he faced. He converted all four of his break-point opportunities, hit 15 winners, and committed just one fewer unforced error than Kovacevic (23 to 22).<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov : \u201cAmazing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match featured the first ATP final clash between two one-handed backhands since 2019 (Tsitsipas Thiem, ATP Finals).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing,\u201d Shapovalov said after lifting the trophy. \u201cTo win three titles in the span of like seven months, it\u2019s incredible. After winning my first title I struggled there for a little while. I had good results but wasn\u2019t able to go through to get another trophy. It\u2019s not easy out here, but weeks like this make it worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickmouratoglou.com\/en\/champion-mindset-pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mx-auto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Banner-Social-Media-Facebook-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-3-1 mx-auto max-w-full overflow-hidden object-cover md:max-w-xl\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Cabos title adds another milestone to Shapovalov\u2019s comeback season. After falling as low as No.\u202f140 following a knee injury post-Wimbledon 2023, the Canadian will return to the ATP Top 30 in Monday\u2019s updated rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Kovacevic, who reached the final by upsetting top-seeded Andrey Rublev 3-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the semis, will rise to a career-high ranking of around No.\u202f56. The final marks just the second ATP final of his career. He didn\u2019t become the eighth first-time ATP champion of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov continued his resurgent 2025 season with a dominant performance in Los Cabos, defeating American Aleksandar Kovacevic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-7916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}