WIMBLEDON, England — As she coached him in Toronto as a child, Tessa Shapovalova told her young son not to mind the balls arcing over his head when he went to the net. Someday, she said, he would be tall enough to reach them. “From a young age I never was a player that would sit back and wait for my opponent’s mistakes,” Denis Shapovalov said on Wednesday. I was always coming to the net from 10, 12 years old, getting lobbed back there, losing points. “My mom always told me: ‘Later on, you’re going to grow, and this is going to be an advantage to you.

Source: thestar July 08, 2021 15:11 UTC