Valentin Vacherot’s life changed when he won the Shanghai Masters as a qualifier earlier this month, shooting up from No. 204 in the world into the top 40.<\/p>\n
He’s now back to winning ways at the Paris Masters, storming past 14th seed Jiri Lehecka in under an hour. And Vacherot is already looking forward to being a top player going into the 2026 season, which will allow him to make his debut at some of the sport’s biggest events.<\/p>\n
“Well, when you’re breaking in the top 50, you don’t have to ask questions about the schedule anymore,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“When you have a few ATP 250s, you might wonder which one you’re going to get into, but in Australia I played the quallies, and reaching the main draw now and being there ahead of time, it’s wonderful.<\/p>\n
“Indian Wells, Acapulco, and the whole tour, everything, all tournaments, this is going to be exceptional, and I’m looking forward to it so much.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valentin Vacherot’s life changed when he won the Shanghai Masters as a qualifier earlier this month, shooting up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[6359,4718,9461,4295,170905,79,1068,31635,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-533396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","9":"tag-jannik-sinner","10":"tag-live","11":"tag-novak-djokovic","12":"tag-paris-masters","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-tennis-section","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115452224807662399","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533396","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=533396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}