{"id":1330,"date":"2017-08-11T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2017-08-11T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T14:31:28","slug":"canadian-teenager-stops-nadal-from-regaining-world-no1-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/canadian-teenager-stops-nadal-from-regaining-world-no1-ranking","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Teenager Stops Nadal From Regaining World No1. Ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/denis-shapovalov.jpg\" alt=\"Denis Shapovalov\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1332\" \/>The two veterans and former World number one\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/rafaelnadal.com\/en\/\">Rafael Nadal<\/a> and <strong>Roger Federer<\/strong> were the favourites to win the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada. Nadal was the number one seed and Federer the number two seed as defending champion <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong> dropped out due to injury and so did the current world number one <strong>Andy Murray<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Murray was set to lose his world number one ranking to Nadal, if the 31 year old Spaniard succeeded in making it to the semi-final of the Rogers Cup. <\/p>\n<p>Nadal has had a great 2017 and reclaiming his world number one ranking would have been a great confidence booster heading into the 2017 US Open which starts on August 28.<\/p>\n<p>However it wasn\u2019t to be as Canadian teenager <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/denis_shapo\">Denis Shapovalov<\/a> pulled of an amazing victory over the number one seed. The 18 year old who was born in Israel had a slow start and lost the first set <em>3-6<\/em> and it looked like Nadal would run away with the match and book a spot for himself in the quarter-finals. However, the Montreal crowd threw their support behind Shapovalov who lifted his game to win the next two sets <em>6-4, 7-6 (<strong>7\/4<\/strong>)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TCtenniscanada<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RxzQhL1KP4I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Shapovalov entered the Rogers Cup on a wild card and had trouble with his serve throughout the match serving up <strong>7 double faults<\/strong> and getting only 67 percent of his first serve in. Nadal did a lot better on his first serve getting 77 percent in but also struggled overall with 6 double faults in a match that went on for nearly 3 hours. The third set went into a crucial tie-breaker and Nadal was outplayed as the Canadian teenager went on to win 7 out of the final 8 points and pull of a surprise victory, much to the delight of the Canadian crowd.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betting.ca\/news\/roger-federer-will-play-at-2017-rogers-cup-montreal\">Roger Federer<\/a> also had a scare against <strong>David Ferrer<\/strong> when he lost the first set <em>4-6<\/em> but the Swiss great quickly found his touch to win the next two sets <em>6-4, 6-2<\/em> and book himself a quarter-final berth. Federer continued his dominance over Ferrer as the two have met a total of 17 times and Federer has won all 17 encounters so far.<\/p>\n<p>Federer has been in fantastic form winning 35 matches and losing just 2 matches in 2017. The 36 year old Federer says he will go into the quarter-finals with better rhythm and confidence as his opponent, Spain\u2019s <strong>Roberto Bautista-Agut<\/strong> has a similar game as David Ferrer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two veterans and former World number one\u2019s Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer were the favourites to win the Rogers Cup in Montreal, Canada. 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