Mohoric wins 10th stage, Yates maintains Giro lead
Froome moves up one spot, Chaves drops away
GUALDO TADINO, Italy, May 15, (AFP): Matej Mohoric beat Nico Denz in a two-man sprint finish to win the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia on Tuesday as Briton Simon Yates maintained his grip on the overall race lead.
But Yates’s Colombian teammate Esteban Chaves had a disastrous day as he was distanced on the week’s rankings come out — making him the top Canadian.
Shapovalov is already the youngest player in the top 30 since Richard Gasquest reached No. 17 in 2005 at the age of 19.
Showing off his crafty game, Shapovalov made an audacious foray to the net to conclude one point with an overhead smash as he ran out to a 4-0 lead in the decisive tiebreaker.
Berdych came back to make it 5-5 but the left-handed Shapovalov then drew his opponent into the net and unleashed a wicked one-handed backhand passing shot down the line.
On his first match point, Shapovalov wrong-footed Berdych with another shot down the line that his opponent couldn’t get back.
The risk-taking Shapovalov committed twice as many unforced errors as Berdych but also hit more than three times as many winners.
On a day in which the start of play was delayed and then interrupted by rain, 14th-seeded Diego Schwartzman eliminated Chilean qualifier Nicolas Jarry 6-4, 6-1, and 16thseeded Lucas Pouille held off Italian wild card Andreas Seppi before a partisan crowd, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (3).