{"id":162909,"date":"2026-02-13T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T07:58:18","slug":"denis-shapovalov-fires-22-aces-to-down-american-aleksandar-kovacevic-at-dallas-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/162909\/","title":{"rendered":"Denis Shapovalov fires 22 aces to down American Aleksandar Kovacevic at Dallas Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FRISCO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov fired 22 aces en route to downing American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 on Thursday at the Dallas Open tennis tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov, the seventh seed from Richmond Hill, Ont., was dominant on his serve with only one double fault in the match. Kovacevic had just four aces to go with a pair of double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov also had the lone break of the contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shapovalov takes on third-seeded Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain in a quarterfinal match Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRISCO \u2014 Canada\u2019s Denis Shapovalov fired 22 aces en route to downing American Aleksandar Kovacevic 6-4, 6-4 on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,154],"class_list":["post-162909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}