{"id":49008,"date":"2025-10-11T21:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-unexpected-final-with-his-cousin\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T21:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T01:02:45","slug":"vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-unexpected-final-with-his-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-in-shanghai-unexpected-final-with-his-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacherot Shocks Djokovic in Shanghai: Unexpected Final with His Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Valentin Vacherot Shocks Djokovic and Advances to the Shanghai Masters Final<\/h2>\n\nIn a historic day for tennis, Valentin Vacherot achieved the most important victory of his career by defeating Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters semifinals. The final score was 6-3, 6-4, securing his place in the tournament final.\n\nVacherot, currently ranked 204th in the world, has had a memorable week in Shanghai, demonstrating an exceptional level of play. The Monegasque tennis player, who initially entered the tournament as a substitute in the qualifying phase, has exceeded all expectations.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Is this real? I don&#8217;t know. Having Novak on the other side of the court was, above all, an incredible experience for me.<\/p><cite>Valentin Vacherot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe Shanghai final promises an even more exciting showdown, as Vacherot will face his cousin, Arthur Rinderknech, who also achieved a notable victory in the other semi-final.\n\nRinderknech defeated the 16th seed, Daniil Medvedev, with a score of 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, thus securing a place in the final.\n\nDjokovic, visibly affected by a hip injury, couldn&#8217;t display his best tennis. The Serbian requested medical time during the match and struggled to stay in the game.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s all about him. I wish him all the best in the final, and the best player won today.<\/p><cite>Novak Djokovic<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDjokovic acknowledged Vacherot&#8217;s great performance and praised his attitude and game during the tournament.\n\nVacherot, with a background in college tennis at Texas A&amp;M University, will now seek to crown his outstanding performance with the Shanghai Masters title.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valentin Vacherot Shocks Djokovic and Advances to the Shanghai Masters Final In a historic day for tennis, Valentin Vacherot achieved the most important victory of his career by defeating Novak Djokovic in the Shanghai Masters semifinals. The final score was 6-3, 6-4, securing his place in the tournament final. Vacherot, currently ranked 204th in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2734,4812,167,9664],"class_list":{"0":"post-49008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-djokovic","8":"tag-shanghai","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-vacherot"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008","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=49008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}