Sport can give us great emotions (even when our favorites don’t win): Valentin Vacherot wouldn’t even have participated in the Master 1000 in Shanghai, he entered as an alternate if our Luca Nardi had not had direct access to the main draw due to the flat rate Of Joao Fonseca.
And instead he won it, and will be remembered as the tennis player with the lowest world ranking (n. 204 at the start of the tournament) to have won a Master 1000 in the era Open (earning more in one tournament than he had ever won in his entire career, a check for $1.1 million).
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A story that seems like a modern fairy tale but is reality: Vacherotfrom alternate to winner of a prestigious tournament, who also beats the timeless Novak Djokovicreturned n. 3 in the world at 38 years old.
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And it doesn’t end here, because another related fairy tale was counted in the final where the same Vacherot he faced his cousin, the French tennis player Arthur Rinderknech (no. 54 in the world), with the score 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 in just over two hours of play.
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Grandpa and grandma would be proud
writes the Monegasque tennis player on the camera that immortalized this wonderful story
Never give up on your dreams, and never think that something is impossible.
Thanks Valentin for reminding us all!
