Valentin Vacherot’s life changed when he won the Shanghai Masters as a qualifier earlier this month, shooting up from No. 204 in the world into the top 40.<\/p>\n
He’s now back to winning ways at the Paris Masters, storming past 14th seed Jiri Lehecka in under an hour. And Vacherot is already looking forward to being a top player going into the 2026 season, which will allow him to make his debut at some of the sport’s biggest events.<\/p>\n
“Well, when you’re breaking in the top 50, you don’t have to ask questions about the schedule anymore,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“When you have a few ATP 250s, you might wonder which one you’re going to get into, but in Australia I played the quallies, and reaching the main draw now and being there ahead of time, it’s wonderful.<\/p>\n
“Indian Wells, Acapulco, and the whole tour, everything, all tournaments, this is going to be exceptional, and I’m looking forward to it so much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentin Vacherot’s life changed when he won the Shanghai Masters as a qualifier earlier this month, shooting up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,619,615,3008,2083,37608,82,593,1706],"class_list":["post-245683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-live","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-paris-masters","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245683","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=245683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}