Overview

• Vacherot defeated his cousin Arthur Rinderknech 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 for his first ATP title, becoming Monaco’s first tour-level singles champion.
• He won nine straight matches from qualifying, toppling Holger Rune in the quarterfinals and Novak Djokovic in the semifinals.
• The title pays $1,124,380, nearly doubling his prior career earnings of roughly $594,000.
• Live rankings project him around No. 40, with analysis noting that about 1,020 of his 1,283 points stem from Shanghai.
• Roger Federer watched the final, coach and half-brother Benjamin Balleret was courtside, and Vacherot signed the camera, “Grandma and Grandpa would be proud.”