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Namibia: World Number 204 Vacherot Beats Cousin Rinderknech to Win Shanghai Masters

Namibia: World Number 204 Vacherot Beats Cousin Rinderknech to Win Shanghai Masters

World number 204 Valentin Vacherot on Sunday beat his cousin Arthur Rinderknech to win the Shanghai Masters.

Qualifier Vacherot, the lowest-ranked Masters 1000 finalist in history, won 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

The all-family final between the 54th-ranked Frenchman Rinderknech and 204th-ranked Vacherot, from Monaco, is one of the tournament’s unlikeliest endings to date — the latter’s coach and half-brother, Benjamin Balleret, described it as a “fairytale”.


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