{"id":583998,"date":"2026-04-05T14:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583998\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:55:08","slug":"monte-carlo-masters-cameron-norrie-to-face-alex-de-minaur-in-second-round-after-coming-through-three-set-battle-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/583998\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte-Carlo Masters: Cameron Norrie to face Alex de Minaur in second round after coming through three-set battle | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie booked a second-round meeting with Alex de Minaur at the Monte-Carlo Masters after coming through a three-set battle with world No 58 Miomir Kecmanovic.<\/p>\n<p>Norrie &#8211; ranked 24th in the world, one spot ahead of countryman Jack Draper &#8211; won the first set 6-2 but then lost the second 6-4 and came under pressure when serving to force a tie-break in the third.<\/p>\n<p>However, the 30-year-old swept the breaker 7-0, sealing victory when his Serbian opponent fired a forehand wide, as he won a match in Monte-Carlo for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sdc-article-image__item\" loading=\"lazy\" intrinsicsize=\"768x432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/skysports-cameron-norrie-monte-carlo-masters-2026_7211547.jpg\"   alt=\"Cameron Norrie (Getty Images)\" data-testid=\"article-image-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Image:<br \/>\n        Norrie swept his deciding-set tie-break with Serbia&#8217;s Miomir Kecmanovic 7-0<\/p>\n<p>Norrie reached the quarter-finals at Indian Wells last month before losing to world No 1 Carlos Alcaraz before being beaten in the second round in Miami by Alex Michelsen.<\/p>\n<p>Draper is skipping the Monte-Carlo Masters as he continues to be patient with his comeback following an arm injury last season<\/p>\n<p>Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, live on Sky Sports or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stream with NOW<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie booked a second-round meeting with Alex de Minaur at the Monte-Carlo Masters after coming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":583999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-583998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583998","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=583998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/583999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}