Valentin Vacherot has continued his remarkable Masters 1000 streak by reaching the quarter-finals at the ATP 1000 in Paris, and he is set to reach a new milestone in the rankings.<\/p>\n
The Monegasque, who is competing as a wildcard in Paris, defeated world No 31 Cameron Norrie 7-6(4), 6-4 in the third round at the Paris La Defense Arena.<\/p>\n
The big-serving Vacherot<\/a> saved all five of the break points he faced in the match and broke the 30-year-old Brit for the only time in the fifth game of the second set.<\/p>\n Vacherot\u2019s win against Norrie was his third victory at the Paris Masters after he saw off Jiri Lehecka and Arthur Rinderknech in the opening two rounds.<\/p>\n Remarkably, Vacherot has now won 10 successive main draw matches at Masters 1000 level as his Paris run has followed his staggering surge to the Shanghai Masters title earlier this month.<\/p>\n Vacherot is only the second ever player to win 10 or more consecutive matches at Masters events while ranked outside the top 20 after David Nalbandian in 2007.<\/p>\n In Shanghai, Vacherot shocked the tennis world by securing his maiden title as a 204th-ranked qualifier, winning nine matches (seven in the main draw after two qualifiers).<\/p>\n His victory at the ATP 1000 tournament in China saw his ranking skyrocket 164 places to world No 40. His previous career-high ranking was 110th.<\/p>\n With his three wins en route to the last eight in Paris, Vacherot has collected 200 points, which has boosted his tally to 1,483.<\/p>\n This has moved Vacherot from 40th to a projected new career-best position of 30th in the Live ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n If Vacherot advances to the semi-finals, he will move to 1,683 points, which would put him 24th in the rankings.<\/p>\n Leading injury expert reveals what players must \u2018start demanding\u2019 from tennis chiefs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Why Jannik Sinner won\u2019t be the top seed at ATP Finals even if he returns to No 1<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Losing in the Paris Masters final would see Vacherot jump to 1,933 points, leaving him 23rd.<\/p>\n If Vacherot were to secure his second straight Masters title, he would have 2,283 points, which would put him 19th in the current live rankings.<\/p>\n After his win against Norrie in Paris, Vacherot explained how he was derailed by an injury last year when at his previous career-high ranking of 110th.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore I actually sustained an injury, I was ranked 110. There were a lot of points to defend, so I went down in the ranking,\u201d he said in his press conference.<\/p>\n \u201cBut what is crazy is that I played much better this year rather than last year, and it was so hard for me to reach the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t reach a lot of semi-finals and finals, but I continue to believe in it right now. Maybe what was abnormal, it was rather to be ranked No 204. I knew that I could play better. I didn\u2019t really think about it.<\/p>\n \u201cI knew that my level was closer to the top 100, and then that I could break into the top 50 rather than being actually ranked 200.\u201d<\/p>\n Vacherot will take on world No 10 Felix Auger-Aliassime in the quarter-finals of the Paris Masters on Friday.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: McEnroe reveals what his \u2018gut is telling him\u2019 about Novak Djokovic\u2019s schedule<\/a> The post Valentin Vacherot set for another stunning rankings breakthrough with Paris Masters run<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valentin Vacherot has continued his remarkable Masters 1000 streak by reaching the quarter-finals at the ATP 1000 in Paris, and he is set to reach a new milestone in the rankings. The Monegasque, who is competing as a wildcard in Paris, defeated world No 31 Cameron Norrie 7-6(4), 6-4 in the third round at the […]<\/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-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","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=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Paris Masters run<\/h2>\n
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How has Vacherot\u2019s Paris run affected his ranking?<\/h2>\n
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What did Vacherot say about his ranking rise after beating Norrie?<\/h2>\n
Who will Vacherot play next?<\/h2>\n
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