{"id":7353,"date":"2025-07-19T05:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7353\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T05:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T05:50:07","slug":"canadas-shapovalov-advances-mifel-tennis-open-final-with-win-over-australias-walton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/7353\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Shapovalov advances Mifel Tennis Open final with win over Australia&#8217;s Walton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS CABOS \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov has a chance to win his second ATP title this year.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov reached the Mifel Tennis Open final with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Australia&#8217;s Adam Walton at the ATP 250 event Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The third-seeded Shapovalov hit seven aces and saved four break points while converting all four of his break-point opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>He needed one hour six minutes to win the match over Walton, the tournament&#8217;s eighth seed.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., also won the Dallas Open in February. The former world No. 10 has won three career ATP titles.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov will face the winner of a semifinal matchup between top seed Andrey Rublev of Russia and seventh seed Aleksandar Kovacevic of the United States in the final.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS CABOS \u2014 Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov has a chance to win his second ATP title this year. Shapovalov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[5451,6733,2840,8024,49,48,602,82,593,944],"class_list":{"0":"post-7353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-adam-walton","9":"tag-atp","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-break-points","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-denis-shapovalov","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tennis","17":"tag-the-canadian-press"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","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=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}