{"id":574703,"date":"2026-05-09T12:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:37:08","slug":"cameron-norrie-british-number-one-loses-in-italian-open-to-thiago-agustin-tirante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574703\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie: British number one loses in Italian Open to Thiago Agustin Tirante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British number one Cameron Norrie exited the Italian Open in the second round with a straight-set defeat by Argentina&#8217;s Thiago Agustin Tirante.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 17th seed lost 6-3 7-5 to Tirante, who is ranked at a career-best 69th in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Norrie, the world number 19, was playing his opening match after a first-round bye. He was immediately at a disadvantage, losing his first service game as he swiftly trailed 3-0 in the first set, which the unseeded Tirante served out in 34 minutes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The second set was a tighter affair, with both players holding serve until Tirante broke for 6-5, and the 25-year-old then delivered a match-clinching service game to love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The exit of Norrie, 30, ends British involvement in the singles in Rome, after Katie Boulter lost to Germany&#8217;s Eva Lys in the first round of the women&#8217;s draw on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Draper, Emma Raducanu and Sonay Kartal are among the British players who are absent from the tournament this year with various injury and illness issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tirante, who is presently Argentina&#8217;s seventh highest ranked men&#8217;s player, will face either Italy&#8217;s 10th seed Flavio Cobolli or France&#8217;s Terence Atmane in the third round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British number one Cameron Norrie exited the Italian Open in the second round with a straight-set defeat by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574703","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\/574703","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=574703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}