{"id":56985,"date":"2020-09-20T21:56:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T03:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=56985"},"modified":"2020-09-20T21:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T03:56:54","slug":"diego-schwartzman-beats-nadal-and-shapovalov-to-advance-to-italian-open-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/diego-schwartzman-beats-nadal-and-shapovalov-to-advance-to-italian-open-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Schwartzman beats Nadal and Shapovalov to advance to Italian Open finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BURACK<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Tenth time is the charm: After previously losing to Rafael Nadal nine straight times, Diego Schwartzman stunned him in straight sets on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Jewish Argentine tennis star won 6-2, 7-5 in just over two hours in the quarterfinals of the Italian Open, which takes place on clay \u2014 the surface that Nadal is best on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor sure, it\u2019s my best match ever,\u201d Schwartzman said. \u201cI played a few times against the three big champions in tennis. I never beat them until today. I\u2019m very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Up next for Schwartzman was Denis Shapovalov, a Canadian tennis player born in Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartzman won 6-5, 5-7, 7-6(4) on Sunday to advance to the final against Novak Djokovic on Monday.<br \/>\nShapovalov\u2019s parents were born in Russia and emigrated to Israel at the collapse of the Soviet Union before moving to Canada. His mother, a former Russian national tennis team player, is Jewish, and his father is Russian Eastern Orthodox Christian. Shapovalov plays for Canada and does not identify as Jewish.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartzman was born in a Jewish family in Buenos Aires and has written about his family\u2019s Holocaust history.<\/p>\n<p>If Schwartzman beats Djokovic, \u201ctwo dreams,\u201d as he calls them, will come true: winning a prestigious Masters 1000 level tournament, and entering the top 10 in the international rankings for the first time in his career. He\u2019s currently ranked 15 in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Yet just by playing in the finals, he\u2019s already made history: He is the shortest finalist ever, listed at 5\u20197\u2033 (he\u2019s likely even shorter).<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Diego%20Schwartzman%20beats%20Nadal%20and%20Shapovalov%20to%20advance%20to%20Italian%20Open%20finals\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[1867,8790,8795,8788,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56986,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56985\/revisions\/56986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}