Tennis News: As of the 2022 Stockholm Open season, British tennis player Cameron Norrie has found a way to qualify for the quarter-finals.
The second seed was trailing 2-4 in the third set of the Stockholm Open second half against Aslan Karatsev, but fought hard to claim a 6-7, 6-3 win. 6-4.
“It was a tough game,” admits Norrie. “Every time Aslan fell behind he raised the level of the game and he literally stole that first set from me. I had a few set point chances and didn’t execute them as well as I did. should have done it in the tie-break. I stayed solid and was a little frustrated in the third set, but I was able to bounce back. I feel primed and refreshed.
In a dramatic match, the 2021 Indian Wells champions came back after squandering set point opportunities in the first set by playing steadily and patiently from the base zone in the second and third sets to turn things around before going out victorious after 3 hours 2 minutes.
The tennis player, who currently has a 47-23 record in the 2022 season, is currently ranked 12th in the ATP Race to Turin rankings with 2,400 points. He will need a positive result at the end of the season to get closer to the Canadian Felix Auger Aliassime who is seventh with 3,065 points and qualified for the prestigious end-of-season tournament, the ATP Finals.
Also, this week the 27-year-old Norrie is aiming for a third title of the season after winning titles at Delray Beach and Lyon. Before that, he will face young Danish tennis player Holger Rune who beat Chilean Cristian Garin 7-6, 6-1.
To date, Norrie leads head-to-head against Rune by 3-0. All three encounters took place in the 2022 season and the Briton won all three encounters in straight sets.
Canadian tennis player Denis Shapovalov also reached the quarter-finals of the Stockholm Open after beating Swiss tennis player Antoine Bellier 6-4, 7-5 in 83 minutes.
Fourth seed Shapovalov, who earlier this month reached the semi-finals in Tokyo, will face fifth seed Alex De Minaur or American JJ Wolf.
Article tags: Tennis, Stockholm Open, Cameron Norrie, Aslan Karatsev, Denis Shapovalov
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