Denis Shapovalov starts his European campaign in St. Petersburg with a good straight sets win over Adrian Menendez-Maceiras.
Even if the Spaniard is ranked only world 126, he has been playing a rather good tennis in the last 2 months to reach a final and 2 semifinals at Challenger level.
Denis was struggling a bit to find his range in the return game in the 1 set to win the opener only at the tiebreak. Then, the 2nd set went a bit more as “expected” with the Canadian winning 7-6 (3) 6-1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgHJfd-ocS8
H2H Shapovalov vs. Berrettini
Denis will face the world no. 62 Matteo Berrettini in the 2nd round. They have never played each other so far.
