Canadian Open: Cameron Norrie out after Aleksandar Vukic defeat

Canadian Open: Cameron Norrie out after Aleksandar Vukic defeat


British quantity two Cameron Norrie is out of the Canadian Open after a shock second-round defeat by world quantity 99 Aleksandar Vukic.

The 29-year-old suffered a 6-3 6-7 (2-7) 6-3 loss to the Australian.

Norrie, now ranked 39 after his run to the Wimbledon quarter-finals in early July, final gained a singles title in 2023.

Whereas he registered some good victories throughout the grass courtroom season, he has to date failed to hold that momentum on to the arduous courts, rapidly discovering himself 3-0 down within the opening set towards Vukic, 29.

Norrie seemed to be combating sickness and had his blood strain checked halfway by the second set, however battled by to stage the match.

Nonetheless, a failure to benefit from any of his three break factors within the rain-interrupted deciding set in the end value him towards his unseeded opponent.

Within the girls’s occasion in Montreal, world quantity three Iga Swiatek gained her first match since lifting the Wimbledon title, breaking Chinese language qualifier Guo Hanyu’s serve six occasions on her method to a 6-3 6-1 success.

4-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka saved successive match factors to beat thirteenth seed Liudmila Samsonova 4-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-3.

The 27-year-old survived break factors within the tenth recreation of the second set, earlier than getting back from a 5-2 deficit within the tie-break.

Japan’s Osaka, the world quantity 49, recorded her first success towards a top-20 participant since beating Karolina Muchova on the Australian Open in January.

Now working with Tomasz Wiktorowski after saying on Monday she had cut up with coach Patrick Mouratoglou, Osaka broke Samsonova twice within the deciding set to clinch victory.

After ending a four-match dropping streak in three-set encounters, she is going to face Jelena Ostapenko within the third spherical after the Latvian beat Mexico’s Renata Zarazua 6-2 4-6 6-2.

British primary Emma Raducanu is in motion on Wednesday towards Peyton Stearns.

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