{"id":2876,"date":"2025-07-17T13:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2876\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:29:06","slug":"denis-shapovalov-crushes-govind-nanda-in-tourney-opener-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/2876\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov crushes Govind Nanda in tourney opener in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS CABOS, Mexico \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov cruised past American Govind Nanda 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday in second-round action at the Mifel Tennis Open.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov had four aces to three double faults in the match, which lasted just one hour.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first match of the summer hard-court season for Shapovalov, who got a bye in the opening round as the No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Hill, Ont., native also broke on five of his seven chances and won 73 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>Nanda had one ace and one double fault, winning 57 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>He only broke once out of four opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov will face the winner of Australia&#8217;s Tristan Schoolkate and Germany&#8217;s Daniel Altmaier in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS CABOS, Mexico \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov cruised past American Govind Nanda 6-1, 6-2 on Wednesday in second-round&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-2876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","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=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}