{"id":913043,"date":"2026-09-28T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913043\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T17:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:06:09","slug":"canadas-shapovalov-falls-to-hurkacz-in-chengdu-open-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/913043\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Shapovalov falls to Hurkacz in Chengdu Open semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov fell to Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Chengdu Open on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., the No. 7 seed at the ATP 250 tournament, had 14 aces and four double faults in the two-hour, 27-minute match.<\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz saved all three break points he faced, fired eight aces and won 85 per cent of his first-serve points.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth-seeded Hurkacz improved to 6-1 against Shapovalov.<\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov was looking to reach his second ATP Tour final of the season after winning the Los Cabos Open in July.<\/p>\n<p>Hurkacz will face second-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in Tuesday\u2019s final.\u2028<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov fell to Poland\u2019s Hubert Hurkacz 6-7 (8), 6-3, 6-3 in the semifinals of the Chengdu&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-913043","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\/913043","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=913043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}