The two have met twice before - Wimbledon 2021 with Shapovalov winning comfortably in straight sets, and the 2022 Madrid Masters which Andy won in three.
24 year old Shapovalov's current ranking is No. 121, but he has a career high of No. 10 achieved in September 2020. He has won one ATP Tour title, at the 2019 Stockholm Open. Having missed the latter half of 2023 due to a troublesome knee injury, he now competes using a Protected Ranking. He started this season by getting a wild card into the ASB Classic in Auckland, but went out in R1 to Sebastian Ofner, and then lost in straight sets to Jakub Mensik at the Australian Open. He reached R2 in Montpelier before losing to Alexander Bublik in three. Marseille saw another R1 exist, this time to Hugo Gaston. He qualified for Rotterdam but was defeated by Gael Monfils in straight sets in R1, both sets going to a tiebreak. Before his injury, he succeeded in reaching the QF of the 2020 US Open, the SF of Wimbledon in 2021, the QF of the 2022 Australian Open, and R3 of last year's French Open. In 2022 he also helped Canada to its first Davis Cup win.
A left-handed player with a one-handed backhand, Shapovalov plays an aggressive, high-risk ground game and has some of the strongest groundstrokes on the tour, complemented by his powerful forehand and serve.
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