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FINALIST VACHEROT SURPRISES HIMSELF
The Straits Times
|October 12, 2025
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Valentin Vacherot said he surprised himself by how he managed his Shanghai Masters semifinal upset win over Novak Djokovic on Oct 11, as the world No. 204 beat the 24-time Grand Slam champion 6-3, 6-4 to march into the Oct 12 final.
Vacherot, who arrived in Shanghai as an alternate and came through qualifiers, has experienced a meteoric rise in the last two weeks, brushing aside top seeds to become the lowest ranked player to reach an ATP Masters 1000 final.
The 26-year-old, who said he had always wanted to play the "Big Three" of Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, acknowledged how surreal it felt to face the fourtime champion in Shanghai.
"I missed Federer and Nadal in my career because I was (at) such a lower ranking, and they stopped their careers before I was getting into the mix of the same tournaments as them," Vacherot told reporters.
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