{"id":48913,"date":"2025-10-11T13:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-historic-final-at-masters-1000\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T13:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:49:01","slug":"vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-historic-final-at-masters-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-historic-final-at-masters-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacherot Shocks Djokovic in Shanghai: Historic Final at Masters 1000!"},"content":{"rendered":"Shanghai, China \u2013 The Shanghai Masters 1000 witnessed a surprising victory that shook the tennis world. Serbian Novak Djokovic fell to Monegasque Valentin Vacherot in the semifinals, with a score of 6-3 and 6-4.\n\nVacherot, who started the tournament as a substitute in the qualifying phase, demonstrated an impressive performance, surpassing Djokovic and advancing to the first ATP final of his career. This triumph represents a milestone for the Monegasque tennis player, becoming the first player from his country to reach a Masters 1000 final.\n\nDjokovic, visibly physically affected during the match, could not keep up with the intensity and confidence of Vacherot, currently ranked 204th in the world.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am not aware of what has happened. It&#8217;s crazy.<\/p><cite>Valentin Vacherot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nWith this victory, Vacherot will rise to 58th place in the ranking, his best position to date.\n\nThe 26-year-old tennis player will face the winner of the match between Arthur Rinderknech and Daniil Medvedev in the final.\n\nVacherot joins a select group of players who have managed to reach their first ATP final in a Masters 1000 this century, following in the footsteps of Alejandro Davidovich in Monte Carlo 2022.\n\nThe Monegasque tennis player acknowledged that the atmosphere in the stadium was mostly on Djokovic&#8217;s side, a four-time champion in Shanghai:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was an hour and 40 minutes of pure joy, although many people didn&#8217;t want it to continue. They were with Novak, and I understand. But it was an unforgettable experience. Now I just want to enjoy tonight and think about tomorrow&#8217;s final.<\/p><cite>Valentin Vacherot<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai, China \u2013 The Shanghai Masters 1000 witnessed a surprising victory that shook the tennis world. Serbian Novak Djokovic fell to Monegasque Valentin Vacherot in the semifinals, with a score of 6-3 and 6-4. Vacherot, who started the tournament as a substitute in the qualifying phase, demonstrated an impressive performance, surpassing Djokovic and advancing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[2734,4812,167,9664],"class_list":{"0":"post-48913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-djokovic","9":"tag-shanghai","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-vacherot"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}