{"id":206964,"date":"2025-10-12T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T07:22:07","slug":"tennis-tracker-rinderknech-facing-vacherot-in-shanghai-final-gauff-vs-pegula-to-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/206964\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Tracker: Rinderknech facing Vacherot in Shanghai final, Gauff vs Pegula to follow"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a fascinating finals day in China with Arthur Rinderknech facing cousin Valentin Vacherot in the Shanghai Masters showpiece before Coco Gauff takes on American compatriot Jessica Pegula in Wuhan.<\/p>\n

07:40 CET – Good morning and welcome to our coverage of today’s finals in Shanghai and Wuhan!<\/p>\n

We’re just a few hours away from the most unlikely of men’s showpiece events in Shanghai, with France’s\u00a0Arthur Rinderknech<\/a> taking on cousin and world number 204 Valentin Vacherot<\/a>\u00a0at 10:30 CET<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Both men are targeting their first title on the ATP Tour, and are well worth their place in the Masters 1000 final, having seen off plenty of star names en route, including Novak Djokovic<\/a>, Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and Alexander Zverev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it’s an all-American showdown in Wuhan, as world number three Coco Gauff<\/a> comes up against sixth seed Jessica Pegula<\/a>\u00a0at 12:30 CET<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pegula leads the head-to-head record 4-2, and is targeting her fourth title of 2025, while Gauff – who won their most recent meeting<\/a> at last year’s WTA Finals – is chasing a first crown since Roland Garros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s a fascinating finals day in China with Arthur Rinderknech facing cousin Valentin Vacherot in the Shanghai Masters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-206964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206964","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=206964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}