Valentin Vacherot has become the story of the Shanghia Masters after coming through qualifying to reach the semi-finals. But the world No. 204 didn’t even have a spot in the qualies draw when he landed in China, and needed nine players to withdraw before he made it in.<\/p>\n
“I landed on Thursday evening. I was still nine out. I knew there was a big chance because Shanghai is the last Masters 1000. A few guys, if you’re hurt at the end of the season you are not taking risks. I knew it will drop,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“But, yeah, there was, I said, worst of all, I was going to be here one week earlier, because I was going to play five more Challengers after. Now I’m just going to go home after this tournament, so it’s another funny story.<\/p>\n
“So, yeah, I said to myself, if I don’t get in, I just train in the condition of China for just one week, and just be ready for after. And one day before I learned.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentin Vacherot has become the story of the Shanghia Masters after coming through qualifying to reach the semi-finals.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,2083,2189,39713,82,593,54820,621,40972,94632],"class_list":["post-202423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-roger-federer","tag-shanghai-masters","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-live","tag-tennis-news","tag-tennis-updates","tag-wuhan-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}