Cameron Norrie’s resurgent form continued as he overpowered Bernard Tomic in just 50 minutes to progress to the semi-finals of the Los Cabos Open in Mexico.<\/p>\n
Fifth-seed Norrie won 12 straight games to defeat his Australian opponent 6-1 6-0 and set up a semi-final meeting with defending champion Denis Shapovalov.<\/p>\n
The British number two travelled to Mexico on a run of six consecutive defeats, having not won a match since April, but has put together a run of three successive straight-set victories.<\/p>\n
He defeated Aleksandar Kovacevic comfortably in the first round before recovering from 3-0 down in the first set to beat James Duckworth in the second round.<\/p>\n
“I’m pleased with the result. I was very solid, I returned well, I made a lot of tough balls when I needed to, and I kept him moving,” said Norrie. <\/p>\n
“I enjoyed the match, and it’s nice to go to bed a little bit earlier.” <\/p>\n
The other semi-final will be contested by Hong Kong’s Coleman Wong and Frenchman Arthur Gea, both of whom are ATP Tour semi-final debutants.<\/p>\n
Tomic, 33, who reached the main draw as a lucky loser from qualifying, held serve in the opening game of the match against Norrie but then lost the rest. <\/p>\n
Norrie said it had taken him a while to get his confidence back following his run of losses, adding he had also “overtrained a little bit” before his first-round exit at the French Open in May. <\/p>\n
“To get a win here meant a lot,” he said. “I took a lot of confidence from that and I was just able to play, not thinking about too much, just enjoying myself,” <\/p>\n
In the Washington Open, top seed Jessica Pegula overcame a slow start to beat Poland’s Magdalena Frech 3-6 6-3 6-0 in the second round on Thursday. <\/p>\n
American Pegula, 32, saved five of seven break points on her own serve before sealing victory, and will face fifth seed Anna Kalinskaya of Russia in the quarter-finals of the WTA 500 event on Friday. <\/p>\n
Second seed Elina Svitolina also booked her place in the quarter-finals with a 7-6 (7-4) 6-4 win over Uzbekistan’s Polina Kudermetova. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie’s resurgent form continued as he overpowered Bernard Tomic in just 50 minutes to progress to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":795429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-795428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}