Denis Shapovalov was upset about Rafael Jodar’s shoelaces. Then, he came unwound all on his own.<\/p>\n
The Canadian blew a 5-1 third-set lead to the young Spaniard on Saturday in the second round of the Cincinnati Open, eventually falling 7-5, 4-6, 7-5.<\/p>\n
Shapovalov had two match points in the final set but was unable to convert on either as he dropped six straight games to close out the loss. He also held a late break in the first set but gave it back at 5-5.<\/p>\n
The 48th-ranked Richmond Hill, Ont., native was coming of a first-round exit at the National Bank Open presented by Rogers. <\/p>\n
With Shapovalov leading 5-3 in the third set, Jodar’s shoelaces broke for the second time in the match, requiring proceedings to pause as he relaced them.<\/p>\n
“You’re also drinking water,” Shapovalov said as he walked by the 19-year-old Jodar, seemingly insinuating that he was using the shoelaces as an excuse to recharge in critical points of the match.<\/p>\n
Jodar, the 12th seed, will face 22nd-seeded Alejandro Tabilo of Chile in the Round of 32 on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov was upset about Rafael Jodar’s shoelaces. Then, he came unwound all on his own. The Canadian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-860215","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\/860215","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=860215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}