Caroline Wozniacki believes there is a clear winner in the debate over Emma Raducanu\u2019s US Open fairytale and Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai Masters title.<\/p>\n
On the back of Vacherot\u2019s astonishing title run<\/a> at this year\u2019s ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai, John Isner argued that the Monegasque\u2019s journey was more impressive than that of Raducanu<\/a> at Flushing Meadows in 2021.<\/p>\n Ranked No 204 at the start of the Shanghai tournament, Vacherot<\/a> didn\u2019t even make the cut for the qualifying tournament and only managed to get into the draw as a last-minute alternate.<\/p>\n He then beat 10th seed Nishesh Basavareddy and 14th seed Liam Draxl in the qualy tournament to reach the main draw of the Masters event. It was the first time outside of his home event, the Monte Carlo Masters, that he had featured in the main event of a 1000 tournament.<\/p>\n Vacherot then defeated Laslo Djere, 14th seed Alexander Bublik, 20th seed Tomas Machac, who retired, and 27th seed Tallon Griekspoor to reach the quarter-final of not only his first Masters event, but his first ATP tournament.<\/p>\n He continued to slay the big-name players as 10th seed Holger Rune was beaten in the last eight before he stunned 24-time Grand Slam winner Novak Djokovic in the semi-final to secure an unlikely place in the final against his cousin Arthur Rinderknech.<\/p>\n Vacherot was the last man standing as he won 4-6, 6-3, 6-3<\/a> and he secured a couple of milestones in the process as he was the first player from Monaco to win an ATP Tour singles title, the first unseeded Shanghai champion and the lowest-ranked ATP Masters 1000 champion.<\/p>\n Four years before Vacherot\u2019s heroics, Raducanu pulled off her own mindblowing feat<\/a> at the US Open as she came through qualifying to win the season-ending Grand Slam.<\/p>\n The then 18-year-old had made her way up to No 150 in the WTA Rankings ahead of 2021 event in New York and was ranked No 31 in the qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n Emma Raducanu 2026 schedule: Where will star play as she targets further rankings surge?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Staggering Jannik Sinner statistics highlight one area where he is ahead of Carlos Alcaraz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Raducanu beat Bibiane Schoofs, Mariam Bolkvadze and fourth seed Mayar Sherif without dropping a set to reach the main draw and found herself in Section 1 in the top half.<\/p>\n The teenager secured wins over Stefanie Voegele, Zhang Shuai, Sara Sorribes Tormo and Shelby Rogers \u2013 who had upset top seed Ashleigh Barty \u2013 to reach the quarter-finals. The Brit then beat 11th seed Belinda Bencic and 17th seed Maria Sakkari to reach her maiden top-level final.<\/p>\n She was up against fellow unseeded player Leylah Fernandez and came away with a 6-4, 6-3 win to become the first qualifier \u2013 man or woman \u2013 to win a Grand Slam. And she did so without dropping a set during her 10 matches in New York.<\/p>\n On the Nothing Major podcast, Isner previously stated he felt Vacherot\u2019s run was more impressive because of the fact that he was only an alternate in qualifying at the start of the Shanghai event.<\/p>\n When asked by former world No 1 Wozniacki if he really thinks Vacherot\u2019s result was better than Raducanu winning the US Open, he doubled down and stated: \u201cI stand by that. I think it is. What this guy did, being 26-years-old, one match won the ATP Tour in his whole life, coming from qualies and winning a 1000\u2026?\u201d<\/p>\n The Dane then hit back saying: \u201cThat is an incredible result, but Emma went from qualies, we\u2019d never really heard of her before.\u201d<\/p>\n When it was pointed out that Raducanu reached the fourth round at Wimbledon that year, she replied: \u201cBut nobody really knew her, she was playing qualies, she didn\u2019t lose a set, but she still won the US Open.<\/p>\n \u201cNo matter how you slice and dice it, that\u2019s better than winning a 1000\u2026\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n Caroline Wozniacki confronts John Isner over him stating Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai win was more impressive than Raducanu\u2019s USO win. pic.twitter.com\/TUQvVbphzF<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 (@RamoFootball) November 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Wozniacki, though, did admit she didn\u2019t read the article, just looked at the headline with Isner saying he didn\u2019t exactly say it was a better result.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a bigger story because it\u2019s the US Open, I think this is more improbable than what she did,\u201d the American stated.<\/p>\n The 2018 Australian Open champion added: \u201cI think we can agree on you would choose the US Open over Shanghai, winning it, so we all agree on that. We all agree that Vacherot\u2019s draw was much more improbable for him to go through that, because of the past results, him being an alternate, so we can agree on that.<\/p>\n \u201cBut when you just talk about the result, the end result, I think winning the US Open is better than winning a 1000 [in] Shanghai.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Emma Raducanu\u2019s US Open title more iconic than Valentin Vacherot Shanghai title, says former world No 1<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Caroline Wozniacki believes there is a clear winner in the debate over Emma Raducanu\u2019s US Open fairytale and Valentin Vacherot\u2019s Shanghai Masters title. On the back of Vacherot\u2019s astonishing title run at this year\u2019s ATP Masters 1000 event in Shanghai, John Isner argued that the Monegasque\u2019s journey was more impressive than that of Raducanu at […]<\/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-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","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=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Emma Raducanu\u2019s 2021 Run<\/h2>\n
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