Cameron Norrie

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Norrie Nullifies Opelka Power To Claim Delray Title

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Brit drops just one set on way to ATP 250 title
When it came to the moments that mattered most, Cameron Norrie’s return game came to the party in the final of the Delray Beach Open by VITACOST.com.

The World No. 13 stayed patient to win tie-breaks in both sets against the big-serving of Reilly Opelka and capture a third ATP Tour title with a 7-6(1), 7-6(4) victory on Sunday.

Norrie opened 2022 with four straight losses but found his feet with a quarter-final run in Rotterdam before performing strongly this week to reach the final in Delray Beach. The 2021 BNP Paribas Open champion only dropped one set on his way to the title as he moved to a positive 6-5 match record for the season with his win over World No. 20 Opelka.

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Norrie came out confidently and regularly found a way to make inroads on the Opelka serve, but the World No. 13 was still unable to convert any of the four break point opportunities he carved out in an engrossing first set.

The Brit persevered and eventually got his reward. Opelka had won six out of six tie-breaks during his title run in Dallas and another four this week in Delray Beach, but Norrie’s returning excelled under pressure and he took it 7/1 to seal the first set.


Opelka then received treatment for a sore elbow but that didn’t seem to hinder his biggest weapon, the American ending the match with 25 aces to bring his tournament total to 81. He limited his opponent to just one break point in the second set but was unable to conjure one of his own against Norrie’s serve in the match.

The second-set tie-break was a tenser affair than the first, Norrie staying calm behind a backhand volley to secure the first mini-break of the tie-break and bring up match point at 6/4. Opelka then fired a forehand long to make Norrie the first British winner at Delray Beach after one hour, 52 minutes.

With the win, Norrie takes a 2-1 lead over Opelka in the pair’s ATP Head2Head series.

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R1 wolna runda
R2 Oscar Otte 6‑3 7‑5
QF [5] Sebastian Korda 6‑2 1‑6 7‑6(4)
SF [4/WC] Tommy Paul 6‑3 6‑3
W [2] Reilly Opelka 76(1) 76(4)

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Soon after Nadal sealed victory, Great Britain's Cameron Norrie extended a win streak of his own to advance on Tuesday night. Fresh off his Delray Beach title, the Acapulco sixth seed made it five wins (and seven sets) on the trot with a 7-6(5), 6-2 win over Germany's Daniel Altmaier.

Norrie twice came back from a break down in an eventful opening set, breaking at love to stop his opponent from serving out the frame at 5-4. That ended a run of three games against serve and started the World No. 12's ascent in the match. Norrie never trailed in the tie-break and never trailed in the second set thanks to an immediate break of serve.

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Cameron Norrie followed with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Germany's Peter Gojowczyk. The sixth-seeded Briton wasted little time in closing out the Acapulco evening slate, winning 10 straight games to reach a second ATP Tour semi-final in as many weeks.

"I used the court to my advantage," said Norrie, brimming with confidence following his Delray Beach title. "Very slow, very bouncy conditions. I just made it physical points and made him play one more ball.

"Even though the score was easy, it was definitely not easy. I sweat through like five shirts, and it was definitely a very physical match. I really enjoyed it."

He'll face third seed Stefanos Tsitsipas in the semis, after the Greek cruised past Marcos Giron, 6-3, 6-4, earlier in the day.

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Red-Hot Norrie Cools Tsitsipas In Acapulco SFs

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British No. 1 reaches back-to-back ATP Tour finals
In humid Acapulco, a red-hot Cameron Norrie cooled the streaking Stefanos Tsitsipas in a battle of two of the in-form players on the ATP Tour.

Great Britain's Norrie, champion a week ago in Delray Beach, extended his win streak to eight straight matches with an efficient 6-4, 6-4 semi-final win over the World No. 4. Tsitsipas, a finalist in Rotterdam earlier this month, had not dropped a set at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel presentado por HSBC until Friday's contest.

In each of the two very similar sets, Norrie scored a break in the ninth game and then coolly served it out. Match point was emblematic of the match as a whole: Tsitsipas was unable to hurt his rock-steady opponent despite repeated baseline attacks, the Greek ultimately netting to send Norrie into his ninth ATP Tour final and eighth in the past two seasons.

"In general, my forehand very loopy, my backhand very flat," Norrie said of his tactics and variety in the one-hour, 18-minute match. "I was able to dictate play to his backhand and defend my forehand quite well. I definitely felt that better in the second set, and I think my game is pretty good in these conditions."


The World No. 12 faced just one break point in the match, in the sixth game of the second set, but a Tsitsipas error ended the threat. Norrie created his only break chances in the two aforementioned games, but converted both times on a total of three break points.

He made a sublime 92 percent of his first serves in the opening set to keep the pressure off, but relied more on his baseline game behind a 57 per cent first-serve rate in set two.

"[My serve] really got me into the match and I was able to relax and was able to execute on the big points," Norrie said, admitting to some early nerves on the stadium court.

He now awaits the winner of the showdown between soon-to-be World No. 1 Daniil Medvedev and 21-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal. The Briton said he's "got the popcorn ready" as he looks forward to watching the Australian Open final rematch.

Norrie will be playing for his fourth ATP Tour title on Saturday, with his first coming in Los Cabos and his biggest in Indian Wells, both in 2021.

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