Meanwhile, Britain’s Cameron Norrie beat Argentina’s Thiago Agustin Tirante 7-5 7-6 (7-5) to set up a fourth-round tie against world number one Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n
Norrie, featuring in his fifth edition of the Madrid tournament, has never previously gone beyond the third round.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s encounter will be the first time Sinner, who beat Denmark’s Elmer Moller 6-2 6-3, shares a court with Norrie.<\/p>\n
“I’m excited to play him [Sinner] but every time we practice he rips me up,” Norrie told Sky Sports. <\/p>\n
“He’s probably the most confident player in tennis right now but I just need to play my game. He’ll be tough to play against but I’m excited for it.”<\/p>\n
Italy’s Sinner is on a 19-match winning streak after lifting titles at Indian Wells, the Miami Open and the Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n
In the women’s tournament, fifth seed Jessica Pegula lost 6-1 6-4 against Ukrainian world number 23 Marta Kostyuk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Britain’s Cameron Norrie beat Argentina’s Thiago Agustin Tirante 7-5 7-6 (7-5) to set up a fourth-round tie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-552174","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\/552174","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=552174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}