Valentin Vacherot won the Shanghai Masters 1000, prevailing in the challenge with his cousin, the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech, an absolute first on the ATP circuit. The 26-year-old Monegasque, coming from the qualifiers and n.204 in the world, won in three sets with a score of 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, in just over two hours of play, which ended with a long embrace between the two. Thanks to today’s success, Vacherot makes a leap in the ranking and tomorrow, with the publication of the new ranking, it will enter the top 50.
«What happened is crazy, unreal. I’m very happy with how I played. Today there should have been two winners, but in tennis it’s not possible.” Thus Valentin Vacherot after the victory over his cousin Arthur Rinderknech. «It’s a tough defeat for Arthur but there isn’t a winner and a loser, there is a family that won. And this story for tennis is beautiful” said the first Monegasque to win an ATP tournament. Vacherot, 26, also directly thanked his 30-year-old cousin, the two are the sons of sisters, for having opened the path to tennis for him, “if it hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t be here today” and for making him realize a dream “which we now share together”.