Britain’s Cameron Norrie saved a match point as he produced a superb fightback to beat world number seven Alex de Minaur at the Canadian Open.<\/p>\n
Norrie was a set and 5-2 down against the Australian third seed before coming through 5-7 7-6 (7-5) 6-1 to reach the fourth round.<\/p>\n
De Minaur, leading by a double-break, had a match point on his own serve in the second set but double-faulted.<\/p>\n
He twice served for the match but, at 5-4 up, double-faulted again to put the set back on level terms.<\/p>\n
World number 37 Norrie edged the tie-break and then ran away with the deciding set to complete victory in two hours and 52 minutes.<\/p>\n
“It was a great match to win and to test my level, and I can take so much confidence from this one,” the 30-year-old said.<\/p>\n
“The level was so high the first two sets. <\/p>\n
“From the beginning, [de Minaur] came out firing and I had to match it.”<\/p>\n
Norrie – who reached the Los Cabos semi-finals last week – will face France’s Arthur Fils for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n
De Minaur’s exit means that fifth seed Ben Shelton is the only top-10 men’s player remaining in Montreal.<\/p>\n
World number one Jannik Sinner and third-ranked Novak Djokovic withdrew before the tournament began, while top seed Alexander Zverev lost his first match.<\/p>\n
Sixth-ranked Daniil Medvedev, seventh seed Taylor Fritz and world number nine Flavio Cobolli also all lost in the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britain’s Cameron Norrie saved a match point as he produced a superb fightback to beat world number seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-730746","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\/730746","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=730746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}