British quantity two Cameron Norrie is out of the Delray Seashore Open in Florida after a slim straight units defeat to Alex Michelsen within the quarter-finals.
There was only one break of serve in all the match as American Michelsen, who was overwhelmed by Norrie on the Dallas Open earlier this month, gained 7-6 7-5 in a single hour 39 minutes.
There was not even a break level in a good first set, which third seed Michelsen gained through a tie-break.
A decisive second within the second set arrived within the ninth sport when world quantity 37 Michelsen reeled off 5 winners in a row to save lots of three set factors degree the set at 5-5.
Norrie, the 2022 winner, was unlucky within the subsequent sport when a Michelsen forehand clipped the online twine and dropped simply on Norrie’s facet of the courtroom for a decisive break.
The American comfortably noticed out his service sport to arrange a last-four match in opposition to Serbian seventh seed Miomir Kecmanovic.