{"id":841865,"date":"2026-08-02T06:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841865\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:19:08","slug":"canadas-denis-shapovalov-falls-one-win-short-of-defending-los-cabos-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/841865\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov falls one win short of defending Los Cabos title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bounce-back week didn&#8217;t end in winning fashion for Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian lost 6-3, 6-4 to Arthur Gea of France in the final of the Los Cabos Open on Saturday night in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov, 27, won the ATP 250 hard-court event last year before dropping his first match at the ensuing National Bank Open presented by Rogers in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>This year, he&#8217;ll head to Montreal to face Zachary Svajda of the U.S. in the first round of the annual Canadian ATP Masters 1000 event. Shapovalov hasn&#8217;t won an NBO match since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Richmond Hill, Ont. product dropped to No. 68 in the rankings before this tournament after compiling a record of 9-14 in 2026. Shapovalov is projected to move up to No. 43 after appearing in his 10th career tour-level final.<\/p>\n<p>Gea, 21, was ranked 127th in the world entering the event, not good enough to earn him entry into the National Bank Open.<\/p>\n<p>Gea saved six of seven break points in the final, while Shapovalov was four-for-seven in the same category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bounce-back week didn&#8217;t end in winning fashion for Denis Shapovalov. The Canadian lost 6-3, 6-4 to Arthur&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-841865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841865","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=841865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841865\/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=841865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}