Monaco’s Valentin Vacherot served up another helping of family drama at the Paris Masters on Wednesday, beating his French cousin Arthur Rinderknech 6-7(9), 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the last-16 in their second Masters showdown this month.<\/p>\n
The victory came less than three weeks after Vacherot<\/a>‘s fairy-tale run in Shanghai, where he became the lowest-ranked player at 204 to triumph at an ATP Masters 1000 event, catapulting him to 40th in the world rankings.<\/p>\n Their latest family reunion at the Paris La Defense Arena lasted nearly three hours<\/a>, with Vacherot conceding the familial tension got to him early on.<\/p>\n “During the first set, I felt more tension than yesterday (in a straight sets victory over Jiri Lehecka<\/a>). Was it because it’s Arthur<\/a> in front of me? Maybe,” Vacherot told reporters.<\/p>\n “But it’s easier to start a match against players that I know less well. Anyway, against Arthur every time, the first set was difficult. Then I felt better and better as time flew, and this was the case today.<\/p>\n “The first set wasn’t easy for both of us. We were very tense, both of us. I think the crowd could see it.”<\/p>\n The opening set proved a nerve-wracking affair for both cousins, with Vacherot squandering two set points in the tiebreak before eventually losing it 11-9.<\/p>\n Vacherot found himself in serious trouble at 3-3 in the final set when he faced three break points at 0-40 down but he eventually recovered, firing 32 winners en route to victory as Rinderknech’s unforced errors ultimately handed him the advantage.<\/p>\n “It was different from Shanghai. The match was completely different,” Rinderknech said.<\/p>\n “There wasn’t much missing, actually, in terms of offensiveness and winners. He deserves his victory.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monaco’s Valentin Vacherot served up another helping of family drama at the Paris Masters on Wednesday, beating his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-233669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}