{"id":49391,"date":"2025-10-12T05:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-at-shanghai-masters-dream-final\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:09:06","slug":"vacherot-shocks-djokovic-at-shanghai-masters-dream-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/vacherot-shocks-djokovic-at-shanghai-masters-dream-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Vacherot Shocks Djokovic at Shanghai Masters: Dream Final!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vacherot Shocks Djokovic and Advances to the Shanghai Masters Final<\/h2>\n\nIn a historic day for tennis, Valentin Vacherot achieved the most significant 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 starred in a dream week in Shanghai, where he initially participated as a substitute in the qualifying phase.\n\n\n

Is this real? I don’t know. Having Novak on the other side of the court was, above all, an incredible experience for me.<\/p>Valentin Vacherot<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the final, Vacherot will face his cousin, Arthur Rinderknech, who also achieved an important triumph by defeating Daniil Medvedev, seeded number 16, with scores of 4-6, 6-2, 6-4.\n\nDjokovic, visibly affected by a hip injury, requested medical time in the first set, losing ground in the following games. Despite the physical difficulties, the Serbian tennis player acknowledged the merit of his opponent.\n\n\n

It’s all about him. I wish him the best in the final, and the best player won today.<\/p>Novak Djokovic<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDjokovic highlighted Vacherot’s impressive run from the qualifying rounds and praised his attitude and game.\n\nVacherot, with a background in college tennis at Texas A&M, will seek the title in the Shanghai Masters final.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vacherot Shocks Djokovic and Advances to the Shanghai Masters Final In a historic day for tennis, Valentin Vacherot achieved the most significant 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 world, […]<\/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":[2734,9346,167,9664],"class_list":{"0":"post-49391","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-tennis","7":"tag-djokovic","8":"tag-shanghai-masters","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-vacherot"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391","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=49391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}