Valentin Vacherot produces an extreme inside out return against Ben Shelton at the Australian Open 2026.
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41 Comments
Not even the great Fed could pull that shot off
A table tennis shot.
Guess it works
Very different
Wow, it's bending like a ping-pong ball!
magnus effect, right?
Вашеро боится подачи Шелтона😂
And it is not AI.. awesome
This is what tennis needs, mix it up make it fun and interesting to boost engagement
Tennis Virgin here, Who got the Point
Last time I saw this was in Dragon Ball…
Put that one in the shank bank. 😂
That was some ps3 Virtua tennis shiz.
That shot looked like AI but it wasn’t.
That's really like a fantastic left foot UFO-Shot by Brazilian footballer Roberto Carlos in a match against France.
This seems to be two touch
The Piedrazo!
Saquon Barkley shot from the cosmos.
He was surprised that's why he missed the next shot 😅
Table tennis shot😂
Mario tennis right there !
la tiró de trivela xdd
The title should be vacherot goes inside IN
The hell. Amazing
Double touch, point should end
I watched this 3 times and I still don't understand what happened lol
Like a prince of tennis 🎾😱😱😱
Ben Shelton is a lefty. He served the ball out wide to Vacherot. Shelton's spin serve placed a lot of clockwise spin on the tennis ball. Vacherot basically sliced the return really hard. As Vacherot is right handed, his slice basically increased the clockwise revolutions of the ball. The laws of physics and a thing called the Magnus force effect caused Vacherot's return to swing from left to right (from Vacherot's perspective) over the distance of the length of the court basically dragging the ball back into the court on Shelton's side.
The production quality is worth sharing This deserves recognition.
How could it be possible 😮😮😮😮
It's 2065, and tennis has evolved SO FAR that the court is no longer a LEGAL SHOT; only the WHITE LINES ARE IN PLAY, and the length of rally's is still phenomenally LONG. The wear on the lines is so much now, they're repainted monthly.
Roberto Carlos of tennis!
Fun fact it's a very common shot on table tennis.
Just for that moment Vacherot was Roberto Carlos!! 😊
I legitimately did not know that was even possible, lmfao
Was he playing table tennis for a moment?
Wow we've got 2 versions of the banana forehand now😂
one of a kind point for sure.
And people say Nadal's backspin was hard to play against. I didn't even notice it til someone called it out one day.
The content is top notch It made my day better.
He goes outside in 😂
Never went over the net tho