Denis Shapovalov is moving on to the Australian Open second round after beating wild card Bu Yunchaokete of China 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-1 in his opening match at the grand slam tennis tournament Monday.<\/p>\n
Shapovalov, the 21st seed, hit 19 aces and converted 3-of-8 break point chances without being broken to win the match in two hours 15 minutes.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., also struck 47 winners to just 11 for Bu. He\u2019ll play Croatia\u2019s Marin Cilic in the next round.<\/p>\n
Shapovalov is the only Canadian remaining in men\u2019s singles after seventh seed F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal retired from his first-round match against Portugal’s Nuno Borges. Montreal\u2019s Gabriel Diallo and Liam Draxl of Newmarket, Ont., lost in their opening-round matches.<\/p>\n
Earlier Monday, Canadian breakout star Victoria Mboko needed only 72 minutes to defeat Emerson Jones of Australia 6-4, 6-1 in the women\u2019s singles first round.<\/p>\n
Mboko, 19, won 77 per cent of her first serve points and 59 per cent of her points on second serve. She will play American Caty McNally in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov is moving on to the Australian Open second round after beating wild card Bu Yunchaokete of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-420097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420097","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=420097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}