Global News published this video item, entitled “Canadian Denis Shapovalov advances to Wimbledon semi-finals” – below is their description.
Ontario’s Denis Shapovalov, 22, has made it to his first Grand Slam semi-final at the Wimbledon tennis championships in London, England. Next, he’ll face the number one tennis player in the world, Serbia’s Novak Djokovic.
As Crystal Goomansingh explains, Shapovalov is not the only Canadian taking on tennis giants, and that’s providing inspiration for other young tennis hopefuls.
Denis Viktorovich Shapovalov is a Canadian professional tennis player. Shapovalov is currently ranked number 10 in the world, and was the youngest to enter the top 30 in 2018. His career-high ATP singles ranking is No. 10 in the world. He is currently the thirteenth youngest player ranked within the ATP top 100.
Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 in men’s singles tennis by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP).
Djokovic has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, the third-most in history for a male player, five ATP Finals titles, a record 36 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 14 ATP Tour 500 titles, and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for a total of 289 weeks (second of all time). In majors, he has won a record eight Australian Open titles, five Wimbledon titles, three US Open titles, and one French Open title. By winning the 2016 French Open, he became the eighth player in history to achieve the Career Grand Slam and the third man to hold all four major titles at once, the first since Rod Laver in 1969.
Ontario is a province in east-central Canada that borders the U.S. and the Great Lakes. It’s home to Ottawa, Canada’s capital, known for Parliament Hill’s Victorian architecture and the National Gallery, featuring Canadian and indigenous art. Toronto, Ontario’s capital, is home to the 553m-high CN Tower, with expansive views from its revolving restaurant.
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country located in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east, and from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the south.
Russia spans more than one-eighth of the Earth’s inhabited land area, stretching eleven time zones, and bordering 16 sovereign nations. Moscow is the country’s capital.
The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 and since 1993 Russia been governed as a federal semi-presidential republic. Russia is a major great power, with the world’s second-most powerful military, and the fourth-highest military expenditure. As a recognised nuclear-weapon state, the country possesses the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons.
