Britain’s Cameron Norrie says he can be doing loads of homework in a bid to lastly beat Alexander Zverev and attain the Australian Open quarter-finals.
Norrie faces the German sixth seed from 05:00 GMT on Monday however has misplaced all 4 of their earlier conferences.
“I’ll sit down and watch these matches again and see how I performed in opposition to him,” mentioned the nineteenth seed.
Norrie has by no means performed within the final 16 in Melbourne earlier than and is the one British participant left within the singles.
He beat three-time main finalist Ruud on Saturday in a efficiency he described as one of his “best at a Slam”, helped by aggressive play and a willingness to go to the online.
Norrie additionally had a poor file in opposition to Ruud, having misplaced his three earlier conferences with the Norwegian.
However the British males’s primary turned that streak round with the assistance of a video evaluation session along with his coach Facundo Lugones.
“I sat down with Facu and watched the matches with Casper again, and we talked quite a bit about what wasn’t working,” Norrie mentioned.
“I believe there can be a whole lot of issues in there with Zverev.
“The previous couple of instances I’ve performed him it is type of been an analogous match each time – a tricky type of set after which he is run away with it.
“I practised with him a few instances in pre-season, and we performed a few actually aggressive observe matches, which was good.
“It should be a tricky one however I am wanting ahead to it.”
Zverev has returned to the higher echelons of the ATP Tour after recovering from tearing ligaments in his proper ankle in June 2022.
Nevertheless, his progress to the final 16 in Melbourne has not been simple.
After preventing again from a set down in opposition to fellow German Dominik Koepfer within the first spherical, Zverev wanted four-and-a-half hours to beat Slovakian qualifier Lukas Klein in his subsequent match.
The previous world quantity two had a shorter evening on Saturday, beating American teenager Alex Michelson in straight units.
It was additionally introduced on Tuesday that Zverev will face a trial throughout this 12 months’s French Open over home abuse allegations. The 26-year-old denies the costs.