By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_now | Tuesday, May 27, 2025
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A Titanic Terre Battue war withdrawing when it turned when Cameron Norrie drew a pulsating rescue act.
Then Norrie jumped.
An ecstatic Norrie was wounded and threw his Babolat up to the sky.
Winless in four career clashes vs. Daniil MedvedevNorrie drew a strong blow 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5 bored by former Roland Garros tribunal Simonne Mathieu.
At the point of the match, Norrie ran down a sung driver, slipped a response down the line and was placed in the net. A Medvedev Sprinting had a look at a fierce running crossing, but sailed the long shot promoting Norrie to try to pierce the clouds with that Racquet jump.
World No. 81 called it “one of the top three” victories of his life.
“It was just a nice release of energy. I think it was a good throw,” Norrie the media told Paris. “I threw it quite well, pretty accurate. Yes, I was happy to stay in court. Racquet didn’t break.
“Yes, it was just a kind of instinct. He threw. Yes, it was, as I said, playing Daniil is not easy. I’ve lost to him, I think the last four times at least. It would always be a complex match for me.
The extension of the Victor was in contrast to the deflation of the loser.
Playing as a not 10 best for the first time in a collision since Wimbledon 2019, Medvedev suffered his sixth release of Roland Garros in the opening round in nine appearances in Paris.
Four months after Medvedev lost to Tien At a painful loss of five Australian Open sets, he faces the ghosts of disappointment-and a title drought dating from his impossible run to Rome 2023. Medvedev fell to Jannik Sinner in a penal punishment with five Australian Sets Loss in 2024 Open last year.
This loss strikes because Medvedev served for the second round at 5-4 and gave a clumsy game.
“I have failed to serve it. I mean, a kind of close match,” Medvedev said. “Excellent war. Disappointed to lose. He played well. I didn’t play quite well. That is why I lost.”
Norrie threw everything she had in Medvedev, who pulled out of a two -set hole making a radical Racquet change. Medvedev passed into a wire bed all the polyester and stronger tension in his tecnifibre race. String Switch worked out: Medvedev was collected from two groups down and served for the second round at 5-4 just to see Norrie draining an incorrect error error returning to 15.
The last two matches were the Duels Deuce who saw Norrie locked and beat Medvedev in his basic athletes.
“This is so different from Rome and Madrid. Clay, cannons, like everything,” Medvedev told the key to the verse. “I had a week here. I found nothing that worked well.
“So during the match, I had to change something when I was losing. In fact it worked. Unfortunately I didn’t win.”
Norrie with his left hand grabbed an eight games losing his belt against 20 main opponents in Clay by posting his first triumph of first 20 in dirt since defeating no. 2 Carlos Poraz In the final of 2023 Rio.
Although Norrie was 0-10 vs 20 main players since defeating No. 11 Casper Ruud in Australian Open 2024, he had a secret weapon working today: imagination.
Norrie, who played through the qualification to fight in the Geneva semifinal last week, pushing Grand Slam King Novak Djokovic into three groups, said he thought he was riding in the red wave of clay.
“I think it was really useful to play Novak last week in half,” Norrie said. “I felt it was just a continuation of that match today. It was like playing the fourth set against Novak in the first set against Daniil. I really felt prepared.
“I had the matches, as I said. It was probably tougher today than it was with Novak in terms of rallies. He would give me absolutely nothing. It was a lot of fun. As I said, I was preparing well. Yes, I managed to go my way. You could get the confidence from last week, qualifying and playing four, five.”
After breaking Medvedev twice in a row to catch a three -hour win, 53 minutes, Norrie did not break his Babolat stick with Hurl victory. He will need it for the second round against Argentine 144 Lucky Laser Federico Gomez.
Utilizing these big battles is helping to revive Spark Norrie at the age of 29.
“I think it just comes back to how much I enjoyed it,” Norrie said. “Last week and the weeks before that, the whole season of Argila, I’m just enjoying it all in court, outside the court.
“Not trying to put any reception on the day of the match or shows. Just playing with what I got that day and making it harsh for the other boy, enjoying all the moments. I did it again today. I could have lost the match. But somehow went to me.”
