{"id":108833,"date":"2025-08-31T01:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108833\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T01:23:08","slug":"canadas-shapovalov-falls-to-top-seed-sinner-as-fernandez-williams-advance-in-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/108833\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Shapovalov falls to top seed Sinner as Fernandez, Williams advance in doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Canada’s Denis Shapovalov returns a shot against Jannik Sinner, of Italy, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships, Saturday.Kirsty Wigglesworth\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov was ousted from the U.S. Open following a 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 third-round loss to top-ranked Jannik Sinner of Italy on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The Richmond Hill, Ont., native leapt out to a 5-2 lead until Sinner stormed back to knot things up at 5-5 before the 27th-seeded Shapovalov took the opening set. <\/p>\n

In the second, Shapovalov held a 3-2 edge before Sinner won four of the next five games to even up the match at one set apiece.<\/p>\n

Shapovalov again jumped out to an early lead, this time 3-0, in the third set. However, Sinner went on to win the next six games to put the Canadian on his heels.<\/p>\n

In the fourth and final set, it was Sinner who grabbed some early momentum, taking a 4-1 lead to eventually close out the match.<\/p>\n

Shapovalov had 15 aces to nine double faults and converted three of his six break-point opportunities. However, he had 47 unforced errors to Sinner\u2019s 36.<\/p>\n

Sinner, meanwhile, had just two aces and five double faults while breaking on six of 13 chances.<\/p>\n

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Venus Williams and Leylah Fernandez celebrate after winning their doubles match on Saturday.Heather Khalifa\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

In women\u2019s doubles action, Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., alongside tennis legend Venus Williams, marched through to the third round with a 7-6 (1), 6-1 win over Japan\u2019s Eri Hozumi and Norway\u2019s Ulrikke Eikeri.<\/p>\n

Fernandez and Williams broke on four of their seven chances, won 79 per cent of their first-serve points and fired 29 winners to their opponents\u2019 19.<\/p>\n

The duo will next face the winner between Great Britain\u2019s Katie Boulter and Sonay Kartal and Shuai Zhang and Russia\u2019s Ekaterina Alexandrova. <\/p>\n

Later Saturday, Montreal\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime was scheduled to face third-seeded Alexander Zverev in third-round action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Canada’s Denis Shapovalov returns a shot against Jannik Sinner, of Italy, during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,44,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-108833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-news","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}