Denis Shapovalov

Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov ( / ˌ ʃ ɑː p ə ˈ v ɑː l ə v , - l ə f / SHAH -pə- VAH -ləv, -⁠ləf ; ; Russian: Денис Викторович Шаповалов ; born April 15, 1999) is a Canadian professional tennis player. Shapovalov is currently ranked in the top 20 of the ATP rankings, and was the youngest to crack the top 30 since 2005. His career-high ATP singles ranking is No. 13 in the world. He is currently the sixth-youngest player ranked within the ATP top 100, behind compatriot Félix Auger-Aliassime , Serbian Miomir Kecmanović , Australian Alexei Popyrin , Frenchman Corentin Moutet and Italian Jannik Sinner . Shapovalov rose to prominence by reaching a Masters semifinal at the 2017 Canadian Open as an 18-year-old, beating grand slam champions Juan Martín del Potro and Rafael Nadal during his run. He has since reached another Masters semifinal at the 2018 Madrid Open , and became the top-ranked Canadian on May 21 as part of his ongoing climb in the ATP rankings. Although not known for being a doubles player, in May 2019 he partnered with Fernando Verdasco to reach the last 16 at the 2019 Italian Open . He then partnered with Rohan Bopanna to reach the finals at the 2019 MercedesCup in June 2019, bringing him to a career-high doubles ranking of 130 and moving him past Adil Shamasdin as the No. 1 ranked Canadian doubles player. An appearance in the quarterfinal at the 2019 season-ending Paris Masters , again with Bopanna, took him into the top-50 in doubles for the first time, making him the highest-ranked doubles player under the age of 25. As a junior, Shapovalov reached a career-high ITF junior ranking of No. 2 behind a Wimbledon grand slam singles title in 2016, and a US Open grand slam doubles title with Auger-Aliassime in 2015. ATP Rankings "The pronunciation by Denis Shapovalov himself" . "Live ATP Doubles Ranking U25" . live-tennis.eu .

Canadian tennis player (born 1999) In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs , the patronymic is Viktorovich and the family name is Shapovalov . Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov (born April 15, 1999) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He has been ranked as high as world No. 10 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) which he first achieved in September 2020. He is the third highest-ranked Canadian male player in history behind Félix Auger-Aliassime (world No. 6 in 2022) and Milos Raonic (world No. 3 in 2016). He has won one ATP Tour singles title and produced his best Grand Slam performance at the 2021 Wimbledon Championships , where he reached the semifinals. Shapovalov also has a career-high doubles ranking of world No. 44, which he attained in February 2020. As a junior, Shapovalov was ranked as high as No. 2 in the world. He won two junior Grand Slam titles, his first being the doubles title at the 2015 US Open with Auger-Aliassime and his second being the singles title at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships . As a professional, Shapovalov broke into the top 100 for the first time in 2017 after making the semifinals of the 2017 Canadian Open ; at the age of 18, he became the youngest player ever to reach the semifinal of an ATP Masters 1000 tournament. The next year, Shapovalov continued his success with a second Masters semifinal appearance at the 2018 Madrid Open and ended the year ranked inside the top 30, making him the youngest player in the group. In 2019, Shapovalov won his first ATP title at the 2019 Stockholm Open and made his first Masters finals appearance at the 2019 Paris Masters , after which he ended the year ranked No. 15. He made two more tour final appearances in 2021. With partner Rohan Bopanna , Shapovalov has also succeeded in doubles at the Grand Slam level, having reached his first quarterfinal at the 2020 US Open , and the Masters level after making five quarterfinals and one semifinal. Together, they also reached their first doubles final at the 2019 Stuttgart Open , which brought Shapovalov past Adil Shamasdin to become the No. 1 Canadian doubles player. After their quarterfinal appearance at the 2019 Paris Masters , he entered the top 50 in doubles for the first time. A left-handed player with a one-handed backhand, Shapovalov plays an aggressive, high-risk ground game and has some of the strongest groundstrokes on the tour, complemented by his powerful forehand and serve. He also often plays serve-and-volley to quickly end points, which has rewarded him on faster surfaces. In recognition of his breakout tennis success in 2017, his peers on the ATP Tour voted him as the ATP Most Improved Player and ATP Star of Tomorrow . That same year, he was also awarded the Lionel Conacher Award as Canada's male athlete of the year, making him the second tennis player to have won the award since its inception in 1932. There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ).