How much money did Vacherot take home after becoming champion in Shanghai?

Valentin Vacherot’s title at the Shanghai Masters 1000 will remain in the big books of tennis historythanks to the story behind the coronation: the Monegasque, 204th on the planet, had to wait for a drop to be able to qualify for the qualy of the Chinese contest. After that, he achieved nine victories in a row to achieve the feat.

After making history by beating his first cousin Arthur Rinderknech (54th) in the grand final, Vacherot will climb 164 places in the world ranking and will position itself as the new number 40 in the worlduntil now its best historical location. However, in addition to tennis, he will have a very important prize taking into account his future on the circuit: the financial one.

Until before this tournament, the 26-year-old tennis player, the executioner of Alexander Bublik (17th), Holger Rune (11th) and Novak Djokovic (5th), among others, in the previous rounds, had earned $594,077 dollars throughout his career ($200,783 in the season). In Shanghai alone, he won a prize of $1,124,380 dollarsin addition to the 1000 points for the ATP ranking.

Rinderknech, for his part, will take 600 units for the ranking (he will climb to 28th place) and $597,890 dollars. The Frenchman will have to continue waiting to win his first trophy on the professional circuit.

All the action of the Shanghai Masters 1000 could be followed, live and exclusively, on Disney+ Premium Plan.