Cameron Norrie is through to the Moselle Open quarter-finals after coming from behind to defeat Frenchman Arthur Cazaux in three sets, while Novak Djokovic progressed in Athens.<\/p>\n
British number three Norrie prevailed in a hard-fought 6-7 (1-7) 7-6 (9-7) 6-2 win in Metz, France, to reach his fifth tour-level quarter-final of the season – and his first since Wimbledon in July.<\/p>\n
The 30-year-old will play a third consecutive home player next, with French lucky losers Dan Added and Kyrian Jacquet meeting on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
World number 27 Norrie, runner-up last year, made a positive start and broke the 69th-ranked Cazaux’s serve in the opening game.<\/p>\n
But after Cazaux levelled the set, Norrie had to survive a break point to take the first set to a tie-break, which the home favourite dominated.<\/p>\n
Both players failed to find a breakthrough as the second set also headed to a tie-break – but Norrie kept pace on this occasion and eventually seized his fourth set point with a sweeping forehand winner.<\/p>\n
Norrie carried that momentum into the decider, capitalising on a struggling Cazaux’s fading energy with an immediate break, before racing to the finish line after midnight local time.<\/p>\n
“It’s always a battle, he’s a very talented player. I had to fight hard to get myself into the match and I had to pick some battles with myself,” said Norrie.<\/p>\n
“I just told myself I wanted to be here and I wanted to be playing.”<\/p>\n
The Moselle Open and Athens Open are the two ATP 250 events taking place in the final week of the regular season, before the ATP Finals – featuring the season’s top eight players – begins in Turin on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie is through to the Moselle Open quarter-finals after coming from behind to defeat Frenchman Arthur Cazaux…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-244286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244286","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=244286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}