He began playing tennis from the age of 5 and his mother quit her tennis coaching job to open a new academy in Vaughan, Ontario to train him and other junior players.When he was a year old, his parents relocated to Canada. Denis’s parents moved to Tel Aviv from the erstwhile Soviet Union as the latter was on the verge of collapse.Tennis Player/Role Model – Roger Federerĭenis Shapovalov as seen in an Instagram Post in May 2018 (Denis Shapovalov / Instagram) Denis Shapovalov Facts.Tennis Tournament – ATP Masters 1000 Canada.Born Nameĭenis Shapovalov as seen in an Instagram Post in July 2019 (Denis Shapovalov / Instagram) Sun Sign In 2017, he was named by Tennis Canada as the ‘Male Player of the Year’ and in the same year, he also won the prestigious ‘Lionel Conacher Award’. 2 after winning the doubles junior title at the US Open in 2015 and the singles junior title at Wimbledon in 2016. Denis had risen through the ranks swiftly and as a junior, he had reached an ITF (International Tennis Federation) ranking as high as No. He came into the spotlight when he reached the semifinal of the Rogers Cup in 2017 and during the tournament, defeated Grand Slam winners Rafael Nadal and Juan Martín del Potro.
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Denis Shapovalov is a Canadian professional tennis player who broke into the ‘Top 15’ of the ATP ( Association of Tennis Professionals) singles rankings and the ‘Top 50’ of the doubles rankings before turning 21.