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Cameron Norrie has besides beaten Wu Tung-lin and Taro Daniel astatine Indian WellsBritish fig 1 Cameron Norrie reached Indian Wells quarter-finals with a straight-sets triumph implicit Russian Audrey Rublev.
Norrie had issues with his service aboriginal connected but recovered his crippled to assertion a 6-2, 6-4 triumph successful California.
The 27-year-old volition play the victor of Frances Tiafoe v Alejandro Tabilo successful the past eight.
Norrie took the Indian Wells rubric successful 2021 - the archetypal British antheral to triumph the tournament.
The past clip the brace had played 1 different was successful the past 16 of the 2022 US Open wherever it was Rublev who won successful consecutive sets.
On Tuesday, Norrie started brightly, breaking his hostile successful the archetypal game. But service issues led to a treble responsibility which gave Rublev a interruption constituent to level astatine 1-1.
The 25-year-old Russian was shouting and hitting himself with his racket done vexation each clip helium made an mistake aboriginal on, and Norrie took advantage, breaking consecutive backmost to pb 2-1.
The Brit broke Rublev's service for a 3rd time, taking the archetypal acceptable 6-2.
Norrie's dominance continued arsenic helium broke Rublev successful the 3rd crippled of the 2nd set, to pb 2-1, and past again soon aft to marque it 5-2.
World fig 7 Rublev saved a lucifer constituent successful the adjacent game, warring backmost to interruption Norrie, but the effect was inevitable arsenic the satellite fig 12 held his nervus to instrumentality the 2nd acceptable 6-4.
It secured a spot for Norrie successful the quarter-finals for the 3rd consecutive clip astatine Indian Wells.
Elsewhere, Daniil Medvedev overcame German Alexander Zverev successful an epic three-set match, with the Russian winning 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 to scope the quarter-finals.
Medvedev volition look Spain's Alejandro Davidovich Fokina successful the past eight.
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