{"id":60257,"date":"2025-08-11T00:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60257\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T00:19:07","slug":"canadas-shapovalov-falls-to-italys-nardi-in-2nd-round-match-at-cincinnati-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/60257\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Shapovalov falls to Italy&#8217;s Nardi in 2nd-round match at Cincinnati Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/tennis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tennis<\/a>\u00b7New<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov dropped a 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 decision to Italy&#8217;s Luca Nardi on Sunday in second-round play at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond Hill, Ont., native loses 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 to unseeded opponent<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press  \u00b7 Posted: Aug 10, 2025 8:06 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A men's tennis player reacts during a match.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ten-national-bank-open-toronto-20250729.JPG\" data-cy=\"leadmedia-story-img\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov reacts during a loss at the 2025 National Bank Open in July. The Richmond Hill, Ont., native lost to Italy&#8217;s Luca Nardi at the Cincinnati Open on Sunday. (Chris Young\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov dropped a 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 decision to Italy&#8217;s Luca Nardi on Sunday in second-round play at the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov, from Richmond Hill, Ont., was seeded 24th at the ATP Tour&#8217;s Masters 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nardi, who entered the main draw as a lucky loser, needed two hours 28 minutes to complete the win.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll play 16th-seeded Czech Jakub Mensik in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriel Diallo, both from Montreal, won their second-round matches on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime will play Arthur Rinderknech of France on Monday, while Diallo will take on top-seeded Italian Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"reportIssue-MwDQL\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/corrections-clarifications-1.5893564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corrections and clarifications<\/a>\u00b7Report error<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis\u00b7New Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov dropped a 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-4 decision to Italy&#8217;s Luca Nardi on Sunday in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-60257","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\/60257","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=60257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}