WIMBLEDON, England — As the Montreal Canadiens, Canada’s hope for hockey’s Stanley Cup, faced elimination across an ocean, the compatriots Denis Shapovalov and Felix Auger-Aliassime broke through to their first Wimbledon quarterfinals within hours of each other on Monday afternoon. Shapovalov, who won the junior Wimbledon title in 2016, strung together two of his best matches in the men’s draw across the middle stages of this tournament. He used the same word to describe his fourth-round win, save for a couple of late wobbles, as he had used after the third round: flawless. “I played really, really flawless,” the 10th-seeded Shapovalov said Monday after a 6-1, 6-3, 7-5 win over the eighth-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut on No. “Super happy with myself.”In the third round, Shapovalov used his Centre Court debut to demolish the homegrown hero Andy Murray, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2, a victory so decisive that it left a staggered Murray questioning the viability of his career.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2021 23:26 UTC