Arthur Rinderknech vs Valentin Vacherot

ATP Shanghai — Arthur Rinderknech vs Valentin Vacherot

🧠 Form & Context

🇫🇷 Arthur Rinderknech (#54, right; 196 cm)

• 2025: 31–31 overall | 14–14 on hard
• Shanghai route: d. Medjedovic (ret), Michelsen, Zverev, Lehecka, Auger-Aliassime, Medvedev ✅
• Notes: Career-best Masters run; surge since grass swing; set to crack the top-30. First Frenchman in a Masters final since Humbert (Paris ’24). Big-serve/first-strike patterns holding up in pressure moments.

🇲🇨 Valentin Vacherot (#204, right; 193 cm)

• 2025: 45–22 overall | 17–9 on hard
• Shanghai route: Alt into qualies → qualified; d. Djere, Bublik, Machac, Griekspoor, Rune, Djokovic ✅
• Notes: Cinderella run from qualifying; only one prior ATP MD win before this event. On the brink of the top-50. Confidence sky-high after taking out multiple top names (Djokovic, Rune). Former college contemporary of Rinderknech—familiarity factor.

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