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Norrie has filled his Putney flat with art, including several Damien Hirsts, and plans to do the same with his new place in Monaco. \u2018I started collecting three years ago. It\u2019s addictive,\u2019 says the tennis player, dapper in POLO RALPH LAUREN<\/p>\n
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In 2019, he met Jacobi in New York<\/a> during the US Open, introduced by one of his teammates. It wasn\u2019t love at first sight; Jacobi was tied to a job in New York and Norrie was travelling the world. But they carried on speaking to each other, and when the business Jacobi was working for closed, \u2018she came to a few tournaments and then we just kept hanging out\u2019. More than four years later, they are embarking on glamorous next steps together. First up? An apartment in Monaco<\/a> \u2013 which has walls to fill. Cameron Norrie, a backgammon fanatic, has commissioned American artist Gigi Collins to paint him a \u2018Backgammon in Monaco\u2019 oil-on-canvas \u2013 but there is more to come. \u2018I\u2019ll buy a not-so-expensive $30,000 painting, and then Louise, who\u2019s buying new furniture for the place in Monaco, will see something, and I\u2019m like, \u201cNo, no, that\u2019s too expensive.\u201d And she\u2019s like, \u201cWhat are you talking about? You just spent that on a painting and you can\u2019t buy a bedside table for $1,000?\u201d\u2019 It\u2019s swings and roundabouts: mid-interview, Jacobi starts winding Norrie\u2019s bucatini around her fork. Love all, it seems.<\/p>\n This summer is full of promise for both of them. Jacobi looks set to dethrone Kim Murray as the First Lady of British tennis: newspapers went wild profiling \u2018Norrie\u2019s secret weapon\u2019 at the grand slam last year, and a victorious courtside kiss sent the paparazzi into a frenzy. Although for Norrie, it\u2019s not media attention but the children waiting in line to meet their hero that hits home. \u2018[I love it] when the kids are pumped. They always say, \u201cGive me a shirt, give me a racket.\u201d I used to be one of those kids,\u2019 he says. While he\u2019s happy to embrace the fanfare, he did find the fanatical recognition he received around Putney last year a little too much: suddenly, he was recognisable, adored and crowded. Because, for all his chilled demeanour, Norrie is said to push himself to insane levels during fitness training. \u2018World No 1 is my goal,\u2019 he says, \u2018and Wimbledon champion, it has to be.\u2019 With tequila and tiramisu to follow, no doubt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norrie has filled his Putney flat with art, including several Damien Hirsts, and plans to do the same…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[103343,1106,9,24,63,78965,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-267420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-august-2023-issue","tag-features","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-paywall-sample-for-0-days","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}