It hasn’t been Novak Djokovic ‘s season, the way it used to be. Though he made the semis of all four Grand Slams, playing five sets against the likes of Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz has proved one step too far for Djokovic at the age of 38. In a season marked by just one title—his hundredth—at Geneva, the trend continued in Shanghai. It’s a tournament he’d won a record 4 times before, but even in Sinner and Alcaraz’s absence, Djokovic was unable to make that final push.

Monaco’s Valentin Vacherot couldn’t dream of a better way to enter his maiden Masters 1000 final than achieving a victory against the Serbian tennis legend . The 204-ranked rising ATP talent left the crowd at the Stadium Court on Saturday flabbergasted. In straight sets, he beat Djokovic with a scoreline of 6-3,

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