Norrie knocked out in Zhuhai Championships quarters-ZoomTech News


Nice Britain progressed within the Davis Cup regardless of Cameron Norrie dropping each his singles matches in Manchester

British primary Cameron Norrie was crushed in straight units by Russia’s Aslan Karatsev within the Zhuhai Championships quarter-finals.

World quantity 17 Norrie, 28, who was the second seed in China, misplaced 7-6 (7-5) 7-6 (7-5) to the world quantity 63.

Karatsev, 30, who knocked out Andy Murray within the final 16, edged one other hard-fought contest on Sunday.

He’ll face both Germany’s Jan-Lennard Struff or Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka within the semi-finals.

After dropping the primary set, Norrie backed up a break of serve to go 3-1 up within the second after which served for the set at 5-4.

However Karatsev broke again earlier than once more edging out Norrie in a tie-break.

Russian prime seed Karen Khachanov takes on American Sebastian Korda within the second semi-final.

Norrie was enjoying in his first singles event since reaching the US Open’s spherical of 32 and was a part of the staff that helped Britain attain the ultimate eight of the Davis Cup final week.


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