Week 33 - ATP Masters 1000 - Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati, OH, USA (hard)

christ · Futures level

RE: Week 33 - ATP Masters 1000 - Western & Southern Open - Cincinnati, OH, USA (hard)

flamingowings · All-time great

Cameron rolls on with a huge win in 3h3m, making him WR 9 on Monday! (would be WR 8 if Wimbledon points counted...)

QF: (9) Cameron Norrie WR 11 DEFEATED (3) Carlos Alcaraz WR 4 (=CH) 7-6(4) 6-7(4) 6-4

Cam was 4-1 up in the 2nd set TB and 3-1 down in the 3rd set. Clutch play to serve it out.

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SF: (9) Cameron Norrie WR 11 vs (PR) Borna Coric (CRO) WR 152 (CH=12, 2018)

H2H 1-1, played in 2018 & 2019. Coric is only ranked so low due to an injury layoff and is live ranked 66.

Other SF is Medvedev vs Tsitsipas.

-- Edited by flamingowings on Saturday 20th of August 2022 04:03:46 AM

Julia Carrot · All-time great

Just Wow !!! Cam Norrie, what a tonic watching that was. And I put a wee bet on half way through, so £30 towards the new tyre I had to buy today which blew between my mum,s nursing home and her house ......... at least not on the motorway.

Recommend watching replay, some outstanding tennis from both.

-- Edited by Julia Carrot on Saturday 20th of August 2022 04:04:53 AM

indiana · Tennis legend

Great to read.

Already guaranteed at least a CH of WR 9 on Monday, Cam will be WR 8 if he reaches the final here.

So, with no Djokovic and possibly no Zverev either, he will be a top 8 seed at the US Open and getting in quite a lot of his defence early for his 2021 Indian Wells title points that come off in October.

Could he yet cover that whole 1000 points?! Then maybe add in quite a few more at the US Open ( where he exited in straight sets in R1 last year to a certain Carlos Alcaraz )

Julia Carrot · All-time great

indiana wrote:

Could he yet cover that whole 1000 points?! Then maybe add in quite a few more at the US Open ( where he exited in straight sets in R1 last year to a certain Carlos Alcaraz )

That was not in my memory bank at all.

indiana · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
indiana wrote:

Could he yet cover that whole 1000 points?! Then maybe add in quite a few more at the US Open ( where he exited in straight sets in R1 last year to a certain Carlos Alcaraz )
That was not in my memory bank at all.

Nor mine to be honest. But I had looked back to see who caused that R1 exit last year.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Fabulous, I was asleep well before this - the upside of the US season is looking forward
To results early the next day!

Well done Cam!

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

And amazing to see Coric in the last 4 - thats also brilliant news!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Julia Carrot wrote:
Just Wow !!! Cam Norrie, what a tonic watching that was. And I put a wee bet on half way through, so £30 towards the new tyre I had to buy today which blew between my mum,s nursing home and her house ......... at least not on the motorway.

Recommend watching replay, some outstanding tennis from both.

I love this forum for these little snippets......

Sort of 'life in a nutshell'.....

Glad all is OK, Julia - and mega result, Cam biggrin

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Cam would also be 6th in the Race with Wimbledon points added in and looking to Turin in a few months time. As it is , he is 11th although it is v tight this year. With just one masters to come, in Paris, we may see more action for the Turin places take place at 250 level than is normally the case

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Coric rises from 152 last week to 66 at least this next week.

For Cam, best ranking win of his career at this level of event as I read it from Twitter comments.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stupendous win & wonderful news to which to wake up! Keep up the good work, young man!

Jan · Hall of fame

Great news to wake up to!
Well done Cam!!

indiana · Tennis legend

JonH comes home wrote:
Cam would also be 6th in the Race with Wimbledon points added in and looking to Turin in a few months time. As it is , he is 11th although it is v tight this year. With just one masters to come, in Paris, we may see more action for the Turin places take place at 250 level than is normally the case

I guess poor Djokovic should get the hypothetical benefit too. So Cam would be 7th in the adjusted live race with the next 4 players then within 240 points of him including the banned Rublev and the runner-up Kyrgios.

Whatever, it kinda is what it is now.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Stu Fraser's account of the Alacaraz match. Some interesting comments by Cam on his approach to the match.

A comment by a reader who seems to know what he's talking about & which doesn't appear in the Archive version:

Surely the best match of Norrie's career (if you set aside several sub-slam final wins). Firstly he was playing World #4 who widely is considered to be the best of his generation, destined to become #1 and to win multiple slams. Alcaraz finds himself on the cusp of eclipsing his compatriot Rafa Nadal. Indeed he seems to emulate many of Rafa's best attributes - eg hugely athletic, fighting for every point, though thankfully without the somewhat tedious mannerisms of his idol. Norrie has become one of the fittest professionals on the circuit and that perhaps was the difference last night. It was a truly memorable contest - full of power, finesse and good sportsmanship. Above all Cameron showed he could live inside the top 10 and hopefully is able to make the end of season tournament on merit alone by a deep run at the US Open in a couple of weeks.

Finally I want to praise the automatic line-calling system. Why, oh why can't all slams follow the system? Tennis does not need the ridiculous drama of the challenge system nor its capacity to waste time.

I was intrigued by that last paragraph. I haven't seen any of the coverage of the tournament, so was unaware that an automatic line-callng system was in use.