For me this is the 2nd best story of the season (after RG final) and the most beautiful story of the season.

 

Beautiful scenes right now. I am in tears. What a story.

 

Morons always have to accuse everyone of doping. That's their peak of understanding. Because doping gives you clean shots, good serves and fantastic netplay.

 

I guess we're going to see a Chinese player winning Monte Carlo masters next year.

 

From outside top 200 at the start to this. Good for him, points and financially wise. Into top 40.

 

A life-transforming tournament for Vacherot. Very happy for him, he was outstanding in that final set. He has had a great run of coming back from a set down in this tournament (twice in qualies and then 4 times in the main draw). Will break into the top 40. Career prize money until this tournament was only $594,077. Has been offered a WC into Paris (he was down to play a Challenger in Seoul that week).

 

Wowee. Congrats to Vacherot. Started slow but really got into gear. Rinderknech did well to hold off Vacherot from completely running away with the match in the third set but Vacherot wouldn't be denied in the end. Miracle run from qualies to Masters 1000 champ.

 

Congrats to Vacherot.

Never thought I’d see the day where a player I’ve never heard of wins a masters 1000 title. Wonder what this guys odds were to win the title 1-2 weeks ago.

 

That's because the only player you know is Andy Murray. No idea why you bother to post on a tennis forum.

 

 

Roger clapping and talking to himself “Maybe I should come back and make the history, the best story of the ATP life!”

 

Yes yes all join together in the Mooza chorus...

NEVER HEARD OF HIM

😅

 

Now seriously, which of the two had a lower probability, Lester City winning the Premier League in 2015/2016 or the Monégasque winning Shanghai masters this year?

 

Leicester were 5,000/1 at the start of the season, meaning if you put £1 you'd get £5,000 back.

If you put £1 on Vacherot at the start of the qualifiers and bet your winnings on him in the next round every time this is what you'd get

Opponent	Odds against	Odds for
Basvareddy	229​	100​	£3.29​
Draxl	18​	25​	£5.66​
Djere	13​	25​	£8.60​
Bublik	257​	100​	£30.71​
Machac*	213​	100​	£96.11​
Griekspoor	131​	100​	£222.02​
Rune	269​	100​	£819.25​
Djokovic	483​	100​	£4,776.25​
Rinderknech	127​	100​	£10,842.10​

*Machac retired so you might not actually get paid out for this, but it still shows probability

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Pre tournament odds would probably have been a lot higher, because as he progressed thought the tournament the bookmakers' view of his ability would improve.

 

Respect to all journeymen in the Top 300...who knows maybe a break like this would be near you.

 

Incredible story. It was clear that there would be random masters winners after old 3 had stopped winning everything.

 

Its not like there werent Random Slam Champs during the big 3 🤣🤣🤣

 

Job done, astonishing

 

This was all written in the stars.
Guy has achieved what Gasquet, Monfils and De Minaur have not been able to.
Powerful.

 

Is De Minaur on the same level as Gasquet or Monfils yet? I think their body of work surpasses his.

 

Incredible!! What a beautiful story!

 

Yuge victory. Great story. A true underdog story. The level of tennis was high-quality from him. He deserved the victory. The only question is, can he back it up? Highly unlikely, but I hope I am wrong.

 

VacheGOAT
Absolutely incredible story, I am now a fan
Never ever seen something like that in tennis, absolutely inspiring.
Doesn't even matter what he does from now on, he made his career already
Fabulous scenes

 

Is Vacherot French for "holy cow"?

 

Vive la vache!

 

What a beautiful Cinderela story 🥰.
Very happy for Valentin.

 

Nice story; both will remember these two weeks for the rest of their lives as the best moments of their professional careers.
Also, both will never achieve anything remotely close to what they achieved here. They are solid top-100 players at best in this tough era.

 

Many times setbacks are often good instead. For Vachelot, the serious injury he suffered at the beginning of the year left him out for six months and many thought it would be difficult for him to have another chance at the world's top 100. Instead, he built up enough fitness for his trip to Shanghai, and in 36°C and 80% humidity, he pulled off an upset that will go down in tennis history. As fate sometimes has it, the best moments in life come when the right place(slow surface and fast ball), the right time(really hot and humid weather), and the right form are all fulfilled at the same time!

 

Well done to Vacherot on his dream run here. It's right up there with Roberto Carretero winning Hamburg 1996 final and it will be interesting to see how Vacherot responds to this big win.

 

 

He played insanely good he deserves the title

 

Q1 Basavareddy
Q2 Draxl
R128 Djere
R64 Bublik
R32 Machac
R16 Griekspoor
QF Rune
SF Djokovic
F Rinderknech

Truly impressive. 😶

As an alternate, he benefited from Fonseca's withdrawal... which benefited Nardi... and Vacherot was able to make the Q.

Then he plays the qualifiers to make it to the final draw.

Probably the first Q to win a MS, and I wonder if he's the first non-seed to win a 96-player MS... before recent years, only IW and Miami had this format....

 

Albert Portas won Hamburg 2001 as a qualifier. He beat Ferrero in the final, in what turned out be the only title of his career.
Carretero won Hamburg 1996 as a qualifier, but back then it was still referred to as a Super 9. As to the surprise factor, this win is right up there with Carretero. Although Carretero was ranked # 143.