Shapovalov drops 3rd-round match at Miami Open to 3rd-seeded American Fritz 

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Mar 24, 2025 3:46 PM EDT | Last Updated: 4 minutes ago

Denis Shapovalov was eliminated from the Miami Open tennis tourney aft a 7-5, 6-3 nonaccomplishment to third-seeded American Taylor Fritz connected Monday.

Fritz scored an aboriginal interruption successful the 2nd acceptable to spell up 2-0 and held service the remainder of the way. He opened the deciding crippled with his ninth ace of the lucifer and served to emotion to wrapper up the lucifer successful 1 hr 26 minutes.

Shapovalov had six treble faults, including 2 successful the deciding crippled of the archetypal acceptable which Fritz won connected instrumentality without surrendering a point.

Shapovalov fought backmost from being down an aboriginal interruption and had tied the acceptable 5-5 earlier giving up the important break.

Fritz besides eliminated Shapovalov successful the 3rd circular of the ATP Masters tourney successful 2023.

Shapovalov, seeded 27th successful Miami, had a bye successful the archetypal circular and defeated Argentina's Thiago Tirante successful 3 sets successful the 2nd round.

The 28-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., inactive leads Fritz 6-5 successful vocation meetings. Last month, Shapovalov bushed Fritz successful the 2nd circular of the Dallas Open en way to winning the ATP 500 tournament.