Cameron Norrie

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Solid Norrie Fends Off Draper Threat

Spoiler:

World No. 12 moves to 14-7 on the season with Miami win
Cameron Norrie used all of his trademark resilience to nullify the powerful game of 20-year-old Jack Draper and triumph in a battle of British lefties at the Miami Open presented by Itau on Friday.

The 10th seed produced a typically consistent performance to secure a 7-6(5), 6-4 second-round victory, continuing the fine form that has turned his 2022 season around after starting the year with four defeats in as many matches.

Norrie took the title in Delray Beach in February and was only prevented from lifting another trophy by Rafael Nadal in Acapulco a week later, but in Miami he came up against an opponent who has also found a winning groove in 2022. Draper has won three titles on the ATP Challenger Tour since January and notched his maiden ATP Masters 1000 win against Gilles Simon in the first round in Miami, but will rue missed chances in Friday's match against an opponent who is renowned for keeping cool at crucial moments.

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Norrie settled the quicker of the two players and surged to a 5-2 lead early, but Draper kept his focus and took advantage of an uncharacteristic lapse on serve from the 10th seed to level at 5-5. Norrie also made the early running in the tie-break, however, and this time gave nothing away as he converted his third set point to edge ahead.

The second set followed a similar pattern, Draper hitting the ball powerfully throughout to keep Norrie on his toes. The World No. 10 was still able to find a way to navigate his way through the trickier moments, most notably saving two break points to hold in the second game.


A break mid-way through the second set was enough to secure Norrie victory in a tight encounter where his more impressive service numbers were key. The three-time ATP Tour titlist won 76 per cent (31/41) of points behind his first delivery, according to Infosys ATP Stats.

The win extends Norrie’s ATP Head2Head series lead over Draper to 2-0. The pair met at the 2021 Cinch Championships in London, where Norrie claimed victory in straight sets, but despite another defeat the No. 145-ranked Draper will feel his performance in Miami is another boost for his season as he aims to qualify for November’s Intesa Sanpaolo Next Gen ATP Finals.

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Having reached the quarter-finals defending his title in Indian Wells last week, Norrie will hope his excellent form can now take him to a career-best performance in Miami. He reached the third round for the first time in 2021 before falling to Taylor Fritz in three sets. His opponent at that stage this year will be either Hugo Gaston or 2018 champion John Isner.

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Miami22 R3:

9 Félix Auger-Aliassime 3625
10 Cameron Norrie 3395
11 Jannik Sinner 2919

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Cam w Top-10, super sprawa.

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Norrie Takes Out Gaston In Miami

Spoiler:

Brit moves to 15-7 for the 2022 season
Cameron Norrie’s charge towards the Top 10 of the ATP Rankings continues to gather speed.

The Brit produced an all-round display to nullify the threat of Hugo Gaston and secure a 6-3, 7-5 win in the third round of the Miami Open presented by Itau on Sunday afternoon.

Norrie currently sits at a career-high ranking of No. 12 and knows that a deep run in Miami could see him enter the Top 10 for the first time. Despite dropping his serve in the opening game of the match and some late Gaston resistance at Hard Rock Stadium, the 2021 BNP Paribas Open champion looked focused and calm as he completed a one hour, 55-minute win to reach the fourth round in Miami for the first time.

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Despite the defeat, World No. 68 Gaston will be happy to have bounced back from a disappointing early exit in Indian Wells two weeks ago with his first run to the third round in Miami. The Frenchman produced moments of quality throughout, a clear demonstration of the talent that took him to the quarter-finals of the Rolex Paris Masters in November.

After three breaks in the first four games of the match, Norrie established a 4-1 lead, settling into his rhythm and giving the Frenchman few free points. Gaston stayed competitive and carved out two break point opportunities in the seventh game but could not find a way to make them count as the 10th seed went on to take the opening set.

Both players tightened up on serve as the match wore on but it was Norrie who made the crucial breakthrough by converting the first break point of the second set in the seventh game. Gaston saved seven match points and reclaimed the break as he threatened to force a deciding set but Norrie overcame the late onslaught to break again and seal victory with an ace.


Norrie was a constant threat on the Gaston serve, carving out fifteen break point opportunities in the match and converting four of them. The Infosys ATP Stats for the match show the Brit won 39/81 points on his opponent’s delivery overall.

Another win for Norrie in Miami would make it five tournaments in a row where the Brit has made the quarter-finals at least, his 0-4 start to 2022 now well and truly forgotten. His fourth-round opponent will be sixth seed Casper Ruud or 30th seed Alexander Bublik.

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Cam coraz bliżej Top-10.

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Miami22: pierwszy raz w 1/8 finału Miami.

[10] Cameron Norrie d. Hugo Gaston 6‑3 7‑5

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Zadebiutuje w Top-10 Cam w poniedziałek.

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04.04.2022 r.

Najwyższy ranking w karierze: 10

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Yes He Cam! Norrie Notches Top 10 Milestone

Spoiler:

Briton moves up two places from World No. 12
Left-handed. Known to sport a bandana. Speedy around the court. Possesses forehand spin and a crisp, flat backhand. Member of the Top 10. Rafael Nadal might most aptly fit the description, but Cameron Norrie ticks those boxes, too.

He tipped his fellow British left-hander Jack Draper to one day make the Top 10 in the ATP Rankings after their clash at the Miami Open presented by Itau last month, but for Norrie that day arrives today. Anyone who watches the 26-year-old knows he has grown to become one of the game’s fiercest competitors. Indeed, a tough out.

Simply glance at the players to get the better of him this season. Their average rank is 15. Two of the last four to down Norrie won those tournaments, with the other two, Carlos Alcaraz and Casper Ruud, duelling in Sunday’s Miami final.

Norrie’s title at the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com (d. Opelka) in February demonstrated his ability to overcome adversity. He lost his first four encounters of 2022, saying he played “maybe my worst match in the last eight months or so” in a first-round defeat at the Australian Open to one of last year’s NextGen artists, Sebastian Korda. But Norrie edged Korda in a third-set tie-break in the Delray Beach quarter-finals and kept on going.


Nadal noted Norrie’s immense progress after beating him in the final of the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC in Acapulco the following week.

“Winning last week in Delray Beach, now playing the final here, back-to-back is a difficult thing,” Nadal, an avid tennis observer in addition to being the record 21-time Grand Slam champion, said in the winner’s speech. “You had an amazing season last year, improving a lot on the ranking, and of course, in the level of tennis.”

Norrie bobs up and down waiting to receive serve, reminiscent of another Spanish gladiator, David Ferrer. On the subject of Spain, an indication of what was to come for Norrie transpired in Davis Cup action in Marbella in 2018. Ranked 114 at the time, he came from two sets down to beat one of tennis’ most resilient competitors, Roberto Bautista Agut. It remains Bautista Agut’s lone career defeat when leading by two sets.

Norrie earned All-America honours at Texas Christian University in the U.S. in a collegiate stint that drastically shaped his career, more so even than his Davis Cup heroics on the clay.

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Remember a young Ferrer being disciplined by coach Javier Piles for not working hard enough and later entering construction for a very brief spell when he thought tennis wasn’t for him? Norrie, by his own admission, wasn’t fully committed to his tennis at TCU in his early days. A moped accident that required stitches following a night out altered his mindset, he said.

Andy Murray, who knows a thing or two about putting in the work, complimented Norrie after he bagged his first ATP Masters 1000 title at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells (d. Basilashvili) last October.

“I think he's a great example for not just British players but all tennis players to look at and go, if you put the effort in day in, day out and properly dedicate yourself to the sport, have an attitude like he does, it can take you a long, long way,” said the three-time Grand Slam winner.

Game-wise, similar to Nadal, Ferrer and Bautista Agut, Norrie does not necessarily win quick service points. His average ace count in his remarkable 2021 term — when he appeared in six finals and soared from 71 to 12 in the year-end ATP Rankings — stood at 4.7. He builds points behind the serve and uses his stellar movement to counter returns when stretched.


Meanwhile, Norrie ranked fifth in return games won last year and seventh in return points won on first serve. That combination of spin and loop on the forehand, and flatter backhand, presents rivals with an awkward mix, especially given the dearth of left-handers on tour.

His finals in 2021 came on hard courts, grass and clay, in Europe and North America. Auckland marked the site of his first, special, final in 2019. He grew up in the iconic New Zealand city, where first coach Julia Sim made, perhaps, the first huge decision in Norrie’s career — turning him from a right-hander to left-hander.

Along with being born in Johannesburg and residing in London, Norrie figures to be one of the most cosmopolitan of the 177 players to ever break the Top 10. In a sport where acclimatising to new environments, and quickly, is pivotal, his worldly background would seem to put him at ease on his travails.

With the Asian swing returning this year, Norrie has the opportunity to make a final in another continent.

For now it is the red clay, at a time when his career is at green for ‘go.’

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