: Tennis: Shapovalov, Sinner, Auger-Aliassime knocked out early at Toronto Masters #IndiaNEWS Home hopes were dashed Wednesday at the ATP Toronto Masters as Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime

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Tennis: Shapovalov, Sinner, Auger-Aliassime knocked out early at Toronto Masters #IndiaNEWS
Home hopes were dashed Wednesday at the ATP Toronto Masters as Canadians Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime exited in the second round.Fifth-seeded Shapovalov became the highest-ranked seed to lose a match – number two Rafael Nadal withdrew before playing – as he fell 6-1, 6-4 to good friend Frances Tiafoe. Serbia’s Dusan Lajovic defeated Auger-Aliassime 7-5, 6-4.“I didn’t feel like the conditions were easy, a little bit windy and the ball flying a bit off my racquet,� Auger-Aliassime said.“Every day conditions in tennis are a little bit different, you’ve got to try to adapt to them. I thought I served well, but the margins were pretty small. I just have to accept the situation, there’s nothing more to do right now.�Shapovalov was buried by American Tiafoe, a lucky loser from qualifying who had lost four previous matches against his northern rival.“That was a big one,� Tiafoe said. “After he beat me so much, I had to stop the bleeding. I needed to win this one, to set the tone, not let him run the table on me.�Shapovalov has now dropped three matches in a row, at Wimbledon and last month in the Swiss alpine village of Gstaad where he was top seed. The Canadian threw in...Read more

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