Canada's Shapovalov suffers 1st-round upset at Wimbledon

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 01, 2025 11:20 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hr ago

Denis Shapovalov, of Richmond Hill, Ont., was upset successful the archetypal circular astatine Wimbledon connected Tuesday, falling 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4 to Argentina's Mariano Navone.

The 27th effect double-faulted 11 times and won conscionable 53 per cent of his second-serve points.

Navone, ranked No. 41 successful the world, broke Shapovalov six times successful the match.

It's Shapovalov's earliest exit astatine the All England Club since 2019.

Fellow Canadians Leylah Fernandez, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Gabriel Diallo stay successful singles competition.

Fernandez, of Laval, Que., faces Laura Siegemund connected Wednesday, portion Montreal's Auger-Aliassime meets Jan-Lennard Struff, and Diallo, besides of Montreal, awaits the victor betwixt No. 5 Taylor Fritz and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard.

Sinner wins all-Italian matchup

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner got his Wimbledon run disconnected to an perfect commencement by beating Luca Nardi 6-4, 6-3, 6-0 successful an all-Italian matchup connected Tuesday.

The three-time Grand Slam champion, who mislaid a five-set French Open last to Carlos Alcaraz, is successful hunt of his archetypal Wimbledon title. He was a semifinalist astatine the All England Club successful 2023.

"First matches are ne'er casual truthful I'm precise blessed astir my performance," helium said successful his on-court interview. "It's a caller tournament, caller chances, caller challenges. You person 1 hostile astatine a time."

Sinner volition play Aleksandar Vukic of Australia successful the 2nd round.

Pegula loses successful 1st round

Third-ranked Jessica Pegula thought she was done with first-round hiccups.

Then she faced Elisabetta Cocciaretto, who needed conscionable 58 minutes to stun the American 6-2, 6-3 on Tuesday.

It was the third-seeded Pegula's earliest exit astatine a Grand Slam tourney successful 5 years.

And it came days aft Pegula won the the grass-court Bad Homburg Open successful Germany connected Saturday, beating Iga Swiatek successful consecutive sets.

"This is decidedly astir apt the worst effect I've had each year," she said.

Pegula, a quarterfinalist astatine Wimbledon successful 2023, deed lone 5 winners and made 24 unforced errors.

"For this to hap today, it's disappointing. I don't cognize however other to enactment it," she said. "I'm upset that I wasn't capable to crook thing around. But astatine the aforesaid time, I bash consciousness similar she played benignant of insane. Hats disconnected to her. Kudos to her for playing astatine a precocious level that I couldn't lucifer it today."