{"id":907843,"date":"2026-09-24T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907843\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:32:12","slug":"canadas-denis-shapovalov-reaches-milestone-at-chengdu-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907843\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov reaches milestone at Chengdu Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denis Shapovalov has joined an exclusive club.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov became the third Canadian to record his 250th career tour-level win with a 6-4, 7-6 (3) triumph over Tallon Griekspoor of the Netherlands in the first round of the Chengdu Open on Thursday in China.<\/p>\n<p>Milos Raonic (383 wins) and Felix Auger-Aliassime (300) are the other Canadians to reach the mark.<\/p>\n<p>Playing his first match since a run to the third round at the U.S. Open, the seventh-seeded Shapovalov converted on two of three break points against the world No. 55.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov, the world No. 50 from Richmond Hill, Ont., next faces world No. 71 Vit Kopriva of Czechia at the ATP Tour 250 event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov has joined an exclusive club. Shapovalov became the third Canadian to record his 250th career tour-level&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-907843","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\/907843","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=907843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}