{"id":40302,"date":"2025-09-26T05:15:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/tiafoe-and-shapovalov-surprises-in-tokyo-fucsovics-and-altmaier-advance\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T05:15:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:15:56","slug":"tiafoe-and-shapovalov-surprises-in-tokyo-fucsovics-and-altmaier-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/tiafoe-and-shapovalov-surprises-in-tokyo-fucsovics-and-altmaier-advance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiafoe and Shapovalov, Surprises in Tokyo: Fucsovics and Altmaier Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tiafoe and Shapovalov Surprise at the Japan Open<\/h2>\n<p>In a day full of surprises at the Japan Open, Frances Tiafoe and Denis Shapovalov suffered unexpected defeats in the first round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Tiafoe, eighth seed, couldn&#8217;t maintain his level and fell to qualifier Marton Fucsovics. The American, visibly frustrated, smashed his racket after the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Fucsovics won with partials of 3-6, 6-1 and 7-5, taking advantage of Tiafoe&#8217;s difficulties with his serve.<\/p>\n<p>This defeat marks the fourth consecutive for Tiafoe, who is currently ranked number 29.<\/p>\n<p>In the next round, Fucsovics will face the winner of the match between Jordan Thompson and Brandon Nakashima.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Shapovalov, seeded number seven, was also eliminated after losing 7-5 and 6-3 against Daniel Altmaier.<\/p>\n<p>Altmaier will advance to play against the winner of the match between Damir Dzumhur and Aleksandar Vukic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiafoe and Shapovalov Surprise at the Japan Open In a day full of surprises at the Japan Open, Frances Tiafoe and Denis Shapovalov suffered unexpected defeats in the first round of the tournament. Tiafoe, eighth seed, couldn&#8217;t maintain his level and fell to qualifier Marton Fucsovics. The American, visibly frustrated, smashed his racket after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[3303,9150,1509,167],"class_list":{"0":"post-40302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-frances-tiafoe","8":"tag-japan-open","9":"tag-loss","10":"tag-tennis"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}