{"id":500964,"date":"2025-10-15T08:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500964\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:03:15","slug":"john-isner-says-if-valentin-vacherots-win-in-shanghai-is-more-impressive-than-emma-raducanus-us-open-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500964\/","title":{"rendered":"John Isner says if Valentin Vacherot’s win in Shanghai is more impressive than Emma Raducanu’s US Open run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Valentin Vacherot is on top of the world right now after his shocking Shanghai Masters win over the weekend. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Vacherot has become the third qualifier to ever win a Masters 1000 event<\/a> and has provided the sport of tennis with a very romantic underdog story. <\/p>\n

Roger Federer watched on as Vacherot won<\/a> the Shanghai event, and it has provided tennis fans across the globe with a huge talking point. <\/p>\n

Vacherot will now hope to go for Grand Slam glory<\/a> next year after rising through the ranks and moving into 40th spot on the world rankings. <\/p>\n

Naturally, when something as huge as this happens in sport, it gets compared to other stories of a similar nature, and that\u2019s what has happened after a big win for Vacherot<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"EmmaPhoto by WUHAN OPEN OFFICIAL 2025\/VCG via Getty ImagesJohn Isner compares Valentin Vacherot win to Emma Raducanu<\/p>\n

In 2021, Raducanu<\/a> stunned the world by coming through qualifiers at the US Open<\/a> to win 10 straight matches and lift the title. <\/p>\n

Naturally, this win secured by Vacherot has led to some pundits and tennis experts to compare the two situations. <\/p>\n

John Isner<\/a> believes that Vacherot\u2019s achievement is better than that secured by Raducanu and believes what he\u2019s managed to do is pretty much unheard of. <\/p>\n

He said on the Nothing Major podcast: \u201cI think it is more impressive, yes. (For Raducanu) it\u2019s a bigger story because it\u2019s the US Open, but I think this is more improbable than what she did.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut her winning the US Open makes it a bigger story, even though this story is really big in the tennis world.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am giving it to Vacherot there. It\u2019s just unheard of.\u201d<\/p>\n

Steve Johnson doesn\u2019t agree with Isner on Valentin Vacherot<\/p>\n

Although Vacherot\u2019s achievement was superb and only two other players have managed it in history, so was Raducanu\u2019s at the US Open. <\/p>\n

Although Raducanu hasn\u2019t won anything since that night in 2021, she is still a reputable player and is once again making strides to improve her ranking after a host of operations. <\/p>\n

Raducanu is back up to 28th in the WTA world rankings and 2026 could be a big one for her if she can stay fit and healthy. <\/p>\n

Raducanu withdrew from Shanghai<\/a> last week but Johnson has still got her back when it comes to whether her US Open win is better than Vacherot\u2019s win. <\/p>\n

He said: \u201d\u00a0I think time will tell. Raducanu has still been good. She has not won any titles, but at least she has been relevant. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy gets to 40 and he is going to be in all these ATP Tournaments next year, but if he doesn\u2019t win any matches, he goes to Shanghai and drops back to 300 last year. Then you are like, \u2018That was the craziest thing for one week, this guy got hotter and got a title\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will see what happens in the next 12 months, but he\u2019s going to have a chance to play all the Masters series and the 250s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover Valentin Vacherot is on top of the world right now after his shocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[1070,79,1068,16,15,162969],"class_list":{"0":"post-500964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-emma-raducanu","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-valentin-vacherot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115377144782680214","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}