{"id":215990,"date":"2025-10-21T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215990\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T18:05:07","slug":"cameron-norrie-british-number-two-beats-andrey-rublev-at-erste-bank-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215990\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie: British number two beats Andrey Rublev at Erste Bank Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie battled his way to victory over seventh seed Andrey Rublev to progress to the second round of the Erste Bank Open. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 35 Norrie won the two-hour match 6-2 6-7 (5-7) 6-2 in Austria. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norrie, 30, started the match in fine fashion and took the opening set in just 34 minutes before breaking serve to move 2-0 up in the second. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Briton served for the match at 5-4, but Rublev landed his first break of serve to force a tie-break, which he won to set up a deciding set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world number eight Norrie regrouped to break Rublev&#8217;s serve in the second game to take command of the third set. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norrie broke once more to book his spot in the next round, where he will face either Australia&#8217;s Alexei Popyrin or Italy&#8217;s Matteo Berrettini. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was all round a really good performance, I was moving well and able to dictate the points,&#8221; said Norrie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I got a bit tight and tentative when I was serving for the match but credit to him staying in and competing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie battled his way to victory over seventh seed Andrey Rublev to progress to the second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-215990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}