{"id":467908,"date":"2026-02-11T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467908\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:23:33","slug":"canadas-gabriel-diallo-falls-in-straight-sets-to-american-ben-shelton-at-dallas-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/467908\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo falls in straight sets to American Ben Shelton at Dallas Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DALLAS \u2014 Seventh-seeded Canadian Denis Shapovalov breezed to an opening-round victory at the Dallas Open on Tuesday night, bouncing Rafael Jodar of Spain 6-1, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Richmond Hill, Ont., tennis star had seven aces in the 69-minute match. He finished with 22 unforced errors, three double faults, 22 winners, won nine of 10 net points and 33 points off of return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jodar had one ace, 19 unforced errors, three winners, one double fault and 13 points off of return.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov dominated on his serve, and won five of seven games while returning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian advances to the round of 16 where he&#8217;ll face American Aleksandar Kovacevic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier in the day, Canada&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo fell 6-4, 6-4 to second-seeded American Ben Shelton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Montreal native had six aces to three double faults and won 81 per cent of first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">However, he failed to break on any of his three chances in the opening-round match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shelton had 13 aces to three double faults and won 82 per cent of first-serve points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also converted on two of his three break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 Seventh-seeded Canadian Denis Shapovalov breezed to an opening-round victory at the Dallas Open on Tuesday night,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-467908","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\/467908","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=467908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}