{"id":949675,"date":"2026-10-28T18:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949675\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T18:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T18:22:12","slug":"canadas-denis-shapovalov-advances-to-second-round-at-swiss-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/949675\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Denis Shapovalov advances to second round at Swiss Indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BASEL \u2014 Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov advanced to the second round of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Swiss qualifier Remy Bertola on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., had six aces while winning 80 per cent of his service points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov clinched the match with five straight wins in the second set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He broke Bertola four times on nine chances while saving one of the two break points he faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov, who entered the ATP 500 tournament ranked 52nd in the world, will next face the winner of a match between sixth-seeded American Taylor Fritz and Australian lucky loser Rinky Hijikata.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Montreal\u2019s F\u00e9lix Auger-Aliassime won the title in Basel in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 28, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BASEL \u2014 Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov advanced to the second round of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-949675","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\/949675","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=949675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}