At the beginning of the match, both players had problems in their stories, but were able to neutralize two Break Points. In the fourth Gaime, V. Gaubas created another opportunity to win a series of the opponent’s stories and this time he realized his opportunity. D. Shapovalov tried to prevent V. to consolidate the hood, but in the fifth, the Lithuanian withstood the pressure, neutralized 3 more “Break Points” and fell 4: 1.
Later, the Lithuanian played confidently during his stories and convincingly won the first set (6: 3). V. Gaub realized the “Set Point” with a spectacular stroke directly into the line, which obviously stunned Shapovalov. Still, the video view showed that the shot of Mr Gaub really touched the line and the point he deservedly won.
In the second set, the fight continued to the fifth of the fifth, when Shapovalov lost his series of films “dry” and gave the Lithuanian “Break Pointo” to the Lithuanian by making a double error. After that, the Gimo Canadian barely controlled without breaking the racket, and when he sat on the bench, he began to bury Russian swear words (3: 2). V. The Gaub lost his lead in just a few minutes. In the sixth Greim, the opponent was formed “Break Point” and the Lithuanian hit the margins (3: 3). In the eighth Geim, D. Shapovalov was formed “Break Point”, which was neutralized by a wonderful “short” ball.
In the ninth Gaimas, V. Gaub had “Break Point”, but was very poorly accepted by the opponent. Soon, the Lithuanian formed a second Break Pointa with a beautiful stroke. This time, Shapovalov made a double mistake and burst – hit the racket several times until he was broken (5: 4). The Canadian was warned by the judge for this behavior.
In the tenth, the Lithuanian led 40:15, but then made two mistakes (40:40). After a very long ball of the ball, V. Gaubas created the third “Match Point”, but did not realize it either. V. Gaubas did not break, created a fourth such occasion and eventually established an impressive victory.
D. Shapovalov made 9 double errors (V. Gaub – 2) and won only 45 percent after his second innings. possible points (V. Gaubas – 63 %).
These tennis players had not played against each other before.
D. Shapovalov 2016 was the second racket of the world’s youth. The Canadian became the Vimbledon junior Champion in the same year, overcoming Alex de Minura in the finals. In the doubles, he and Felix Auger-Allas stumbled only in the finals. Even earlier – 2015 -D. Shapovalov and F. Auger-Alias will become the US Open Junior Binary Champions.
D. Shapovalov’s transition from junior tennis to men was smooth. 2020 In the ATP units rankings, the Canadian was even 10th. During his career, the Canadian has won 3 ATP tour units: 1 – ATP 500 and 2 – ATP 250. This year, Shapovalov has won the largest career unit tournament for Casper Ruda in the finals in Dallas (USA).
2019 D. Shapovalov reached the final of ATP 1000 tournament in Paris (France) and only landed on Novak Djokovich. 2021 The Canadian traveled to the semi -finals of the Vimbledon men’s units, and in 2022. He and his teammates won the Davis Cup when he won one of the matches against the Australian team in the finals.
D. Shapovalov has defeated stars such as Rafael Nadal, Alexander Zverev, Stefana Tsitsip, Matteo Berrettini, David Goffin, Roberto Bautista Agutas, Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, C. Ruud and others.
After this year’s triumph in Dallase, D. Shapovalov played well in the ATP 500 tournament in the Acapulk (Mexico), where he reached the semi -finals. Later in four ATP 1000 tournaments, the Canadian has only reached only 3 victories, and the ATP 500 in Munich (Germany) lost the first match when 6:7 (2:7), 0:3 lags behind Diego Dedura-Palomer, a German spokesman for Lithuanian origin and decided not to meet the duel due to illness.
V. Gaub this time he received the opportunity to play at one of the bigger Roman cards in the honor of tennis legend Nicola Pietrangelis. It holds nearly 4,000 fans.
The victory of V. to the Gaub brought 70 ATP units rating points and 52.925 thousand. and a German will be waiting for him in the third round Alexander Zverev (ATP-2) or Argentinian Camilo Ugo Carabelli (ATP-60). The victory over Mr Shapovalov, Mr Gaub, was allowed to bounce to 133 position in the virtual ATP ranking. This is a new Lithuanian career record.
V. Gaubas also achieved the best Lithuanian tennis result from 2020. In August – the last time we saw the Lithuanian representative in the sixteen final of the ATP 1000 tournament nearly 5 years ago when Richard Berankis won the victory in the US.
The total prize fund of the tournament is just over $ 8.055 million. euros. The tournament matches are broadcast live on Go3 TV.
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