PARIS \u2014 Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz looked out of rhythm in his 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 loss to unseeded Cameron Norrie in the second round of the Paris Masters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The six-time Grand Slam winner even had an animated discussion with a coach Juan Carlos Ferrero after losing the second set.<\/p>\n
Norrie took full advantage, sealing victory on his second match point with a strong first serve that Alcaraz returned long. It was his first career win against a No. 1-ranked player.<\/p>\n
Alcaraz made 54 unforced errors and won only 64 per cent of his first-serve points as he slipped to a third loss in eight matches against Norrie. It was their first meeting indoors.<\/p>\n
The defeat also ended Alcaraz’s 17-match winning run in Masters events and means second-ranked Jannik Sinner will move to the top of the ATP rankings if he wins the tournament. Sinner plays Zizou Bergs on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Norrie next faces the winner of Wednesday’s match between\u00a0cousins\u00a0Valentin Vacherot and Arthur Rinderknech.<\/p>\n
Vacherot beat 14th-seeded Jiri Lehecka 6-1, 6-3 in the first round earlier on Tuesday. The 40th-ranked Vacherot faces Rinderknech a little more than two weeks after beating him in\u00a0the Shanghai Masters\u00a0final. Vacherot made an against-the-odds run from qualifying in China to win his first career tournament and soar up the rankings.<\/p>\n
Preparations will be a little different this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’ll stay in our own bubbles. We’re cousins, yes, but we’re not on the same team so we’re not going to have dinner together tonight,\u201d said Vacherot, who is from Monaco.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Shanghai we had breakfast together, we warmed up together, because we were far from everyone and everywhere,” Vacherot added. \u201cHe came to see my matches, I would come and watch his matches, and we had no one else to rely upon. (This time) all our families are here so we’ll stick to our sides, and I hope that we’re going to deliver a wonderful match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fifth-seeded American Ben Shelton reached the third round with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win over Flavio Cobolli. He faces Andrey Rublev next. In the late match, fourth-seeded Taylor Fritz played Aleksandar Vukic.<\/p>\n
In the remaining first-round play, there were wins for ninth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime and No. 11 Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n
The indoor tournament moved from its long-standing home at the Bercy Arena \u2014 which hosted the\u00a0men’s\u00a0and\u00a0women’s\u00a0basketball finals at last year’s Paris Olympics \u2014 to La D\u00e9fense Arena. The multisport venue is home to a rugby team and fans here witnessed swim star\u00a0L\u00e9on Marchand’s gold-medal rush\u00a0at the Paris Games, as well as a Taylor Swift concert in May last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s much more comfortable. Bigger centre court and also court 1 and court 2 (are) great courts,” the\u00a0four-time Grand Slam champion\u00a0from Italy said. \u201cWe have some great facilities where we can practice with a great gym and everything set up in a perfect way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Third-ranked Alexander Zverev finds it a little noisy.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you’re (practising) on one of the outside courts, you have noise from Court 1, you have noise from the speakers of (the main) court,\u201d the big-serving German said. \u201cThere’s a lot going on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS \u2014 Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz looked out of rhythm in his 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 loss to unseeded Cameron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-248213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}