{"id":260392,"date":"2025-11-04T05:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260392\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T05:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T05:37:11","slug":"cameron-norrie-wins-at-moselle-open-but-jacob-fearnley-loses-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/260392\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie wins at Moselle Open but Jacob Fearnley loses in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cameron Norrie overcame Frenchman Valentin Royer to reach the Moselle Open second round in Metz &#8211; but fellow Briton Jacob Fearnley suffered an early exit in Athens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 27 Norrie was taken the distance by the in-form Royer, who dominated a second-set tie-break, but the seventh seed reset to win 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 at the French tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number two Norrie, who described last week&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c4gkz8mkjleo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victory over then world number one Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> as the biggest of his career, reached the final of the Moselle Open last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He faces another home player in Arthur Cazaux next as he bids for his first ATP Tour title since 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The whole match was not easy,&#8221; Norrie said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s [Royer&#8217;s] first proper year on the tour and he has almost reached the top 50. I had to fight hard.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier, Britain&#8217;s Jan Choinski fell to a 4-6 6-4 6-4 defeat to Lorenzo Sonego at the same tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the other ATP 250 event taking place in the final week of the regular season, British number three Fearnley lost 6-4 6-2 to Bosnian player Damir Dzumhur in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie overcame Frenchman Valentin Royer to reach the Moselle Open second round in Metz &#8211; but fellow&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-260392","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\/260392","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=260392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}