{"id":227027,"date":"2025-10-20T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227027\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:33:16","slug":"tennis-cousins-valentin-vacherot-and-arthur-rinderknech-return-this-week-in-the-same-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227027\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis cousins Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech return this week in the same tournament &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fairytale of Valentin Vacherot will continue this week after the unforgettable events of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/vacherot-prevails-in-cousins-duel-in-shanghai-from-world-no-204-to-40-1616473\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shanghai Masters 2025<\/a>, where this 26-year-old Monegasque, who was ranked World No. 204 at the beginning of the tournament and almost didn&#8217;t enter the tournament, beat all their rivals (often from one set behind), including Novak Djokovic in semi-finals, and ended up taking the big prize.<\/p>\n<p>Vacherot jumped from World No. 204 to World No. 40 in one week, and earned $1,124,380, nearly twice than all his earnings from his career ($594,077). That would be an excellent story on its own, but it gets crazier because his rival in the Shanghai final was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/shanghai-masters-final-between-cousins-vacherot-and-rinderknech-proofs-that-tennis-can-also-be-unpredictable-1616153\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his cousin<\/a>, Arthur Rinderknech, who also was far from favourite (was ranked World No. 56 before the tournament, and ended ranked 27 after being finalist).<\/p>\n<p>Rinderknech, who won the first set, later fell out of shape and was left heartbroken at the final&#8230; but proud of his younger cousin, embracing him in a moment that delighted fans worldwide. And now, they will meet again in another tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Vacherot and Rinderknech next tournament this week<\/p>\n<p>This week, two ATP 500 tournaments take place, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/vienna-open-dates-and-first-rivals-for-sinner-zverev-musetti-de-minaur-1620073\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna Open<\/a> (with Sinner, Zverev, De Mi\u00f1aur or Medvedev) and the Basel Open, with top seeded players that include Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz, Casper Ruurd, Jakub Mensik, Alejandro Davidovich and Joao Fonseca.<\/p>\n<p>Vacherot and Rinderknech are also present in the Swiss Open. Vacherot, however, got unlucky as he has been paired with top seeded and World No. 4 Taylor Fritz for the opening match on Tuesday (time TBD).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Rinderknech has a theoretically easier rival in Belgian Raphael Collignon, ranked 73, also on Tuesday. However, as we all were reminded in Shanghai, rank is just a number&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"img-1620123-4705773\" data-fullsize=\"\/media\/57\/tenniscousinsvalentin_4705773b.jpg\" data-lazy=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamereactor.euhttps:\/\/www.gamereactor.eu\/media\/57\/tenniscousinsvalentin_4705773_650x.jpg\" width=\"650\" onclick=\"if (!window.__cfRLUnblockHandlers) return false; gallery_openmodal('1620123','4705773',false,'275db609ebbdc7b03e227c97bbfa1fc5');\" height=\"366\" alt=\"Tennis cousins Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech return this week in the same tournament\" class=\"rwd_col_content lazy\" data-cf-modified-910f6c2da768585bbc2bad9e-=\"\"\/>Rolex Shanghai Masters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fairytale of Valentin Vacherot will continue this week after the unforgettable events of Shanghai Masters 2025, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-227027","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\/227027","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=227027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}