{"id":411814,"date":"2026-02-06T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411814\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T21:36:09","slug":"great-britain-beat-norway-to-reach-qualifiers-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/411814\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain beat Norway to reach Qualifiers second round"},"content":{"rendered":"

All eyes were on the opening rubber of this tie as British No.1 Jack Draper<\/a> made his long awaited return to the match court, his first match since August 2025.<\/p>\n

Draper showed signs of the player who reached a career-high world No.4 last year as he dispatched Viktor Durasovic 6-2, 6-2<\/a> in only 61 minutes.<\/p>\n

The Briton was pleased with his triumphant return after a lengthy spell on the sidelines. “It\u2019s really good to play here in Oslo and have my first match in a long time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been a really difficult time since I\u2019ve been away from the sport but I knew I had to keep on practicing my hardest and learning about myself. That\u2019s hard work that no one sees and then when I come back hopefully I\u2019m able to play some top tennis again.”<\/p>\n

It was then over to Cam Norrie<\/a> up against one of the game\u2019s rising stars in 19-year-old Nicolai Budkov Kjaer.<\/p>\n

Norrie and Budkov Kjaer know each other well having practiced many times together in Monaco, but on the big stage, Norrie\u2019s experience proved the difference.<\/p>\n

The British No.2 played the pressure moments well, breaking at 4-4 in the opening set and coming back from 4-1 down in the second to secure a 6-4, 6-4 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Coming into day two with a two match lead, the Brits only needed one more win to seal their place in the second round.<\/p>\n

Up stepped last year\u2019s No.1 doubles team on the ATP Tour, Julian Cash<\/a> and Lloyd Glasspool<\/a> to face Budkov Kjaer and Durasovic.<\/p>\n

The Brits showed their quality in the pressure moments of a deciding set tie-break, silencing the crowd and completing Great Britain\u2019s victory with a 6-2, 2-6, 7-6(5) win.<\/p>\n

With the tie already wrapped up, Jacob Fearnley<\/a> came in to play Budkov Kjaer in the final rubber and put on a strong performance against the ATP Next Gen semi-finalist.<\/p>\n

Fearnley put the icing on the cake for the British team – winning 3-6, 6-3, 10-7 in an hour and 16 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All eyes were on the opening rubber of this tie as British No.1 Jack Draper made his long…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-411814","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411814","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=411814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}