The renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou has named the player with the greatest progress in 2025.
In a social media post, Mouratoglou, former coach of Simona Halep, praised Valentin Vacherot for the huge progress made in 2025.
Mouratoglou found the explanations that, in his opinion, led to the improvement of Vacherot's athletic form.
The Monegasque Valentin Vacherot had a meteoric rise in 2025 and managed to win the Shanghai Masters 1000 tournament.
"From world rank 267 to the triumph in Shanghai, and now world rank 31, this is a fairy tale story.
To understand how the "miracle" happened, we need to delve deeper than the jump in rankings. Valentin didn't suddenly change his shots, didn't reinvent his game, didn't wake up with different weapons. He changed how he manages his matches. And that changes everything!" transmitted Patrick Mouratoglou, as quoted by the American press.
Mouratoglou believes that fundamentally, the change that greatly helped Valentin Vacherot occurred at a mental level.
Valentin Vacherot won the Shanghai Masters tournament, his first ATP title and first Masters title of his career, thus becoming the lowest-ranked player in history to win a Masters 1000 category tournament.