Valentin Vacherot has called his victory over Novak Djokovic an \u2018unreal experience\u2019 after producing yet another Shanghai upset.<\/p>\n
The man from Monaco produced a dominant 6-3, 6-4 result over the 24-time Grand Slam champion to reach the final in Shanghai.<\/p>\n
Vacherot<\/a> continued to unleash his barrage of groundstrokes and serves against a Djokovic who appeared to be physically struggling, as he had been all week.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not realising [what\u2019s happened], so I can\u2019t give any words on it,\u201d said the Monegasque, having never played a top-10 player before in his career.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is just crazy. First of all, to just be on the other side of the court [from Novak] was an unbelievable experience.<\/p>\n \u201cI think I\u2019ve got so much to learn from this match, from him. Even for myself, I\u2019ve got a lot to keep.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was an hour and 40 minutes of pure joy, even though not many people wanted me to keep going. He\u2019s really appreciated here. He has won four times.<\/p>\n \u201cI got a bit lost in all his titles when they were announcing him, but it was an unreal experience.<\/p>\n \u201cNow I\u2019m probably just going to enjoy the win tonight and think about the final tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Overall, Vacherot is the lowest-ranked player to reach a Masters 1000 final, with Andrei Pavel having held the previous record after he made the showpiece match at the 2003 Paris Masters final as the world No 191.<\/p>\n As a result of his Shanghai run, Vacherot will rise to the world No 58 spot, with an opportunity to enter the world\u2019s top 40 \u2013 should he prevail in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n Additionally, he is the third lowest-ranked player to be victorious against Djokovic, with Reilly Opelka (world No 293) and Filip Krajinovic (world No 319) topping the list.<\/p>\n Ningbo Open draw: Emma Raducanu faces world No 230, but path will get trickier<\/a><\/p>\n Aryna Sabalenka and Jasmine Paolini reveal an alternative view on extended WTA 1000 events<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t even come as a qualifier, I came as an alternate,\u201d he later explained.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure to even play the qualifier. Coming back from six months out is always not easy.<\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot just come back and win tournaments right and left.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019ve just got to fight your way through a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n In total, Vacherot has now knocked out five of the tournament\u2019s seed players, with Djokovic joining Alexander Bublik, Tomas Machac Tallon Griekspoor, and Holger Rune as casualties of the dream run.<\/p>\n He will next face his cousin, Arthur Rinderknech.<\/p>\n The post Valentin Vacherot reacts to \u2018unreal\u2019 Shanghai experience after toppling Novak Djokovic<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valentin Vacherot has called his victory over Novak Djokovic an \u2018unreal experience\u2019 after producing yet another Shanghai upset. The man from Monaco produced a dominant 6-3, 6-4 result over the 24-time Grand Slam champion to reach the final in Shanghai. Vacherot continued to unleash his barrage of groundstrokes and serves against a Djokovic who appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Latest Tennis News<\/h2>\n