Vacherot still was processing just how much his life on and off the court has changed when he appeared on Tennis Channel 2’s “Second Serve” program on Wednesday,
“My big goal this year was to be Top 100,” he confessed after reaching No. 110 this year before a six-month injury break, “and I was losing a bit of faith. We were already in September, and I was still ranked No. 200, so it was almost that I needed to win every Challenger I was going to play to break Top 100. … It more than happened.”
But after hearing from more than a few of his peers ranked south of No. 100 in the ATP rankings in congratulations and gratitude, he had an uplifting message to share.
“A few of them texted me and said, ‘Thank you,’ because they told me that I gave so many players the motivation to go to work every day and still have the hope that a run like that [comes],” he said. “Everyone is going to believe now that they could make it. The level was already so close between 200, Top 100 guys … and I feel now that people are going to believe even more that they could do it.”
