{"id":24839,"date":"2025-10-11T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/valentin-bashot-stan-novak-djokovic-at-the-shanghai-masters\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T08:36:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T12:36:36","slug":"valentin-bashot-stan-novak-djokovic-at-the-shanghai-masters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/10\/11\/valentin-bashot-stan-novak-djokovic-at-the-shanghai-masters\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentin Bashot Stan Novak Djokovic at the Shanghai Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>SHANGHAI &#8212; Valentin Bachelot scored the biggest victory of his career Saturday, defeating a limping Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the Shanghai Masters final where he will face his cousin.<\/p>\n<p>Vacherot (Monaco), ranked 204th in the rankings, was an alternate in qualifying, but is having a career week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is this for real? I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; the 26-year-old Bashro said shortly after defeating the 24-time Grand Slam champion. &#8220;First of all, it was an incredible experience for me to have Novak on the other side of the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, believe it or not, his next trial could be against his cousin Arthur Rinderknecke.<\/p>\n<p>Rindernecke will face 16th seed Daniil Medvedev in Saturday&#8217;s semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously there&#8217;s going to be some recovery, but I&#8217;m not going to miss it,&#8221; Bashro said of Cousin&#8217;s fight.<\/p>\n<p>Djokovic, 38, was slowed down throughout the match due to hip pain. After falling behind 4-3 in the first set, he took a medical timeout. In the next two games he scored only one point.<\/p>\n<p>Vashlot played college tennis at Texas A&#038;M.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANGHAI &#8212; Valentin Bachelot scored the biggest victory of his career Saturday, defeating a limping Novak Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the Shanghai Masters final where he will face his cousin. Vacherot (Monaco), ranked 204th in the rankings, was an alternate in qualifying, but is having a career week. &#8220;Is this for real? I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6568,262,4576,261,6457,6158,24,6546],"class_list":{"0":"post-24839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bashot","9":"tag-djokovic","10":"tag-masters","11":"tag-novak","12":"tag-shanghai","13":"tag-stan","14":"tag-tennis","15":"tag-valentin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}