Rob Shaw has been some of the constant winners for Canada within the skilled tennis panorama for a decade and he continued to rake within the trophies final week in Japan.
Since successful his first ITF title in 2014, the Canadian has received not less than two titles each non-COVID-restricted 12 months, scoring his second win of the season final week.
Right here’s what it’s essential know.
Underneath the Radar: Shaw’s Tremendous Lead to Japan
Simply 4 months into the season and Rob Shaw has already made it three years in a row with a number of titles on the ITF Tour.
Final week, he and companion Heath Davidson lifted their second trophy of the 12 months, this time on the Japan Open. It’s the first ITF Tremendous Sequence title of the Canadian’s profession out of his 25 ITF doubles wins.
Shaw and Davidson dominated the sphere in Japan, by no means dropping greater than two video games in a set and dropping a complete of simply eight video games on their solution to the title. They claimed the trophy with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Andrew Bogdanov and David Wagner within the last.
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Stacey Fung almost joined Shaw within the winner’s circle in Japan, reaching the W35 Osaka last, however misplaced in three units to Sayaka Ishii.
On the ATP Challenger Tour final week, three members of the Canadian Davis Cup crew reached quarter-finals: Gabriel Diallo in Sarasota, Florida, Alexis Galarneau and Vasek Pospisil in Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Galarneau has been enjoying effectively of late in Mexico and can look to maintain it going this week in Acapulco.
The ITF Wheelchair Tour passes by means of Ontario this week, with a Futures occasion in Markham.
In Case You Missed It: Monte-Carlo Miss
With Canada attending to skip the Billie Jean King Cup qualifiers as reigning champions and a Masters 1000 occasion dominating the ATP calendar, it was a quiet week for the Canadians on the high ranges of the sport final week.
Solely Félix Auger-Aliassime was competing final week on the Monte-Carlo Masters. He opened his marketing campaign with a win over Luca Nardi, however regardless of catching a break and avoiding his second-round conflict with Carlos Alcaraz as a result of Spaniard’s arm harm, he was overwhelmed in spherical two anyway by fortunate loser Lorenzo Sonego.
What to Watch: Shapovalov Arrives in Europe
This week on the ATP Tour, Denis Shapovalov, who on Monday celebrates his twenty fifth birthday, will contest his first occasion on the European clay in 2024 on the Tiriac Open in Bucharest, Romania.
Shapovalov kicks off his marketing campaign in opposition to Corentin Moutet and can face both Stan Wawrinka or No. 7 seed Nuno Borges within the second spherical. Second seed Tallon Griekspoor looms within the quarter-finals.
Alejandro Tabilo or Lorenzo Sonego are potential seeded semifinal opponents for the Canadian, with high seed Francisco Cerundolo on the highest different half of the draw.
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Félix Auger-Aliassime is competing on the different ATP 250 occasion this week in Munich, Germany. He’s seeded fifth and can face Maximilian Marterer within the first spherical.
The Canadian is in the identical quarter as No. 4 seed Jan-Lennard Struff and will face second seed Holger Rune within the semifinals.
You’ll be able to comply with the Canadians in motion each week right here.
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