{"id":244153,"date":"2025-10-22T18:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244153\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:28:09","slug":"alexander-bublik-calls-valentin-vacherots-shanghai-masters-title-failure-by-atp-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244153\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik calls Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai Masters title \u2018failure\u2019 by ATP players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexander Bublik<\/a> has described Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai Masters title<\/a> as a collective failure by the rest of the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf he\u2019s able to win a Masters, that\u2019s our fault,\u201d Bublik said of the Mon\u00e9gasque, who started the ATP Masters 1000 tournament as the world No. 204, in an interview with Tennis TV. <\/p>\n

\u201cAll of us, we failed. We didn\u2019t get ready enough for the Masters. That\u2019s all of us, in a way. He cracked, how many top-20 players? Two top-10? He won a Masters. On the other side there\u2019s Arthur (Rinderknech) killing everyone, so I guess it\u2019s question to us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vacherot\u2019s fourth win at the Shanghai tournament (after two in qualifying and one in the main draw) came against Bublik, the 28-year-old Kazakh who has this year won more ATP Tour titles than anyone but Carlos Alcaraz, the world No. 1. Bublik was world No. 17 at the time; Vacherot\u2019s next four wins came against the world Nos. 23, 31, 11, and 5, before he beat Rinderknech, his cousin and the world No. 54, to win the title.<\/p>\n

Bublik also said that Vacherot\u2019s title signified how the collective level without Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner is significantly lower. Alcaraz skipped the Shanghai Masters, while world No. 2 Sinner had to retire from his third-round match against Tallon Griekspoor<\/a> with severe cramps. Vacherot promptly beat Griekspoor in the next round.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Sinner<\/a> have formed a duopoly atop men\u2019s tennis in the past three years. Alcaraz is world No. 1, with 11,340 rankings points, and Sinner trails him at No. 2 with 10,000. Ranked third is Germany\u2019s Alexander Zverev, who has 5,930 points \u2014 a massive gap between the top two and the rest of the field.<\/p>\n

Alcaraz and Sinner have each won four of the last eight Grand Slam tournaments, splitting them evenly. They have won a combined 10 of the last 13 Grand Slams, dating back to 2022. Their absence and early exit respectively in China\u00a0left the field open for any of the top-20 players to finally take their opportunity to collect silverware.<\/p>\n

Instead, Vacherot, from the depths of the 200s rankings, beat three top-20 players, including Bublik, on his way to a Shanghai victory. The others were No. 5 Novak Djokovic and No. 11 Holger Rune.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are we in Shanghai at the end of the season? How many of us have won a lot of titles? How many of us maybe won a couple of Slams, Masters, and we were not able to stop those two guys? That\u2019s the question for us,\u201d Bublik said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik has described Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai Masters title as a collective failure by the rest of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-244153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}