Having risen to prominence in 2017 after dispatching Rafael Nadal in a stunning upset, Shapovalov was swiftly earmarked as a generational talent. Yet, much like an overvalued tech stock, his trajectory has been anything but linear. Volatility, it would seem, is his most consistent metric.
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Having risen to prominence in 2017 after dispatching Rafael Nadal in a stunning upset, Shapovalov was swiftly earmarked as a generational talent. Yet, much like an overvalued tech stock, his trajectory has been anything but linear. Volatility, it would seem, is his most consistent metric.