{"id":223383,"date":"2025-10-18T19:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223383\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:06:11","slug":"valentin-vacherot-explains-why-roger-federer-made-him-go-crazy-during-the-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/223383\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentin Vacherot explains why Roger Federer made him go \u2018crazy\u2019 during the Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valentin Vacherot is still on a high following his stunning victory at the Shanghai Masters, where he claimed his first ATP title.<\/p>\n

Vacherot won the Shanghai Masters<\/a> final against his cousin Arthur Rinderknech, coming from behind to triumph 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.<\/p>\n

He became the first player from Monaco in the Open Era to win an ATP<\/a> title, with Vacherot rising to 40th in the world rankings<\/a> on the back of his success.<\/p>\n

The 26-year-old climbed a huge 164 places to his career-high rank, while Rinderknech moved 26 places to world number 28.<\/p>\n

Roger Federer watched Vacherot win<\/a> in Shanghai, with the Swiss legend having attended the ATP Masters 1000 event earlier this month.<\/p>\n

\"ValentinPhoto by Yin Liqin\/China News Service\/VCG via Getty ImagesWhy Roger Federer made Valentin Vacherot go \u2018crazy\u2019 during the Shanghai Masters<\/p>\n

The champion has now discussed that situation, having been asked on the Nothing Major Show if Federer\u2019s<\/a> presence put more pressure on him, or if it inspired him to play even better than he already was.<\/p>\n

Vacherot<\/a> replied: \u201cFirst of all, he was here for five days, the last five days, and I think for the first four days, my girlfriend saw him 15 times, and I saw him nowhere.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: Valentin Vacherot discloses how Jannik Sinner treats him in the locker room every time they see each other<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t see him. I was only seeing him far away playing. They made this putt-putt 18-hole next to the player restaurant, and he was playing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t going to go out there and just shake his hand, like I was waiting for the moment to just cross him all of a sudden. I could not cross him, and my girlfriend crossed him 15 times.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I was going crazy until the moment I actually walked on the court to warm up the morning of the match against Arthur.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe came out of the door of the tunnel and I was coming in. And he made the excuse ahh, kind of like, even for him, \u2018Oh, finally I see you\u2019. We just talked for 20 seconds at the moment I was going to warm up.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut yeah then he was here for the whole final then I spent 45 minutes with him on the celebration after in the player restaurant. It was like the cherry on top of this whole week.\u201d<\/p>\n

How Valentin Vacherot\u2019s next tournament is fittingly linked to Roger Federer<\/p>\n

Federer\u2019s mere presence in and around the court was enough to frighten his opponents during his playing career.<\/p>\n

But fortunately for Vacherot the legendary figure decided to call time on his glittering career back in 2022.<\/p>\n

Federer played an exhibition<\/a> in Shanghai, but adopted an even more relaxed approach to take in the thrilling final between cousins Vacherot and Rinderknech.<\/p>\n

It was clearly an emotionally-testing week for the eventual champion, who deserves huge credit for keeping his composure and getting the job done.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, he entered the Shanghai Masters<\/a> as a qualifier, and knocked out the likes of Novak Djokovic and Holger Rune along the way.<\/p>\n

Djokovic allowed Vacherot to take the attention<\/a> after their semifinal clash, with the latter now fittingly set to seek a second career title next week.<\/p>\n

Vacherot has earned a Basel wildcard<\/a>, with the ATP 500 tournament fittingly taking place in Federer\u2019s hometown in Switzerland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Valentin Vacherot is still on a high following his stunning victory at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[753,64,63,965,48376,85,747,125801],"class_list":{"0":"post-223383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-roger-federer","12":"tag-shanghai-masters","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-valentin-vacherot"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223383","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=223383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}