{"id":202958,"date":"2025-10-10T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202958\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T12:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T12:54:10","slug":"rinderknech-defeats-auger-aliassime-to-reach-first-masters-1000-semi-final-in-shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/202958\/","title":{"rendered":"Rinderknech defeats Auger-Aliassime to reach first Masters 1000 semi-final in Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Rinderknech recorded one of the greatest victories of his career on Friday by defeating 12th seed Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarterfinals of the Rolex Shanghai Masters, with a score of 6-3, 6-4. This win allows the Frenchman to reach a Masters 1000 semifinal for the first time. In doing so, he follows in the footsteps of his cousin Valentin Vacherot, who defeated Holger Rune on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is huge. First of all, I followed my cousin,\u201d Rinderknech said. \u201cHe went through a lot of emotions on Thursday, and I\u2019m trying to follow his example, fight, and do like him. It\u2019s been incredible since the start of the tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole family is watching from home. We\u2019re in our own little world here. It\u2019s amazing, and today I played really well. I\u2019m happy it was in two sets, so I won\u2019t be too tired for tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the first set, Rinderknech set the pace from the start and converted his first break point at 3-2 with a winning forehand passing shot. Very solid on serve throughout the match, winning 85% of his service points, he left little opportunity for his opponent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Medvedev or De Minaur for Rinderknech<\/p>\n

Broken at the start of the second set, Felix Auger-Aliassime still had three break-back chances at 1-2 but could not convert them. The Canadian then failed to trouble the Frenchman, who remained very solid in the crucial moments of the match.<\/p>\n

Two players ranked outside the world\u2019s top 50 (Arthur Rinderknech and Valentin Vacherot) reached the semifinals in Shanghai for the first time, marking the first time this has happened at a hard-court Masters 1000 event since Paris in 2017.<\/p>\n


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Rinderknech, ranked No 54, will play the winner of the match between Russian Daniil Medvedev, the No 16 seed, and Australian Alex De Minaur, the No 7 seed, next.<\/p>\n

The Frenchman beat Czech Jiri Lehecka, the No 15 seed (6-3, 7-6 (5)), German Alexander Zverev, the No 3 seed (4-6, 6-3, 6-2), American Alex Michelsen, the No 28 seed (6-3, 6-4) and Serb Hamad Medjedovic (6-7 (3), 1-0 ret.) ahead of his victory.<\/p>\n

In the previous rounds of the Shanghai tournament, Auger-Aliassime, ranked No 13, won against Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 8 seed (6-4, 6-2), Dutchman Jesper De Jong (6-4, 7-5) and Chilean qualifier Alejandro Tabilo (6-3, 6-3).<\/p>\n

Shanghai Masters 1000, other last eight results (Qi Zhong Tennis Center, hard, USD 9.193.538, most recent results first):<\/p>\n

Daniil Medvedev vs. Alex De Minaur<\/p>\n

Novak Djokovic (4) beat Zizou Bergs: 6-3, 7-5<\/p>\n

Valentin Vacherot (Q) beat Holger Rune (10): 2-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Rinderknech recorded one of the greatest victories of his career on Friday by defeating 12th seed Felix…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-202958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}