Italian Open: Cameron Norrie sets up Novak Djokovic meeting in Rome

Norrie had won each 4 of his erstwhile meetings with Fucsovics

British fig 1 Cameron Norrie bushed Marton Fucsovics to acceptable up an Italian Open last-16 gathering with satellite fig 1 Novak Djokovic.

Norrie had led by a acceptable and 5-1 but was pegged backmost by the Hungarian earlier digging heavy again to win.

Djokovic overcame Grigor Dimitrov 6-3 4-6 6-1 aft seeing a 4-2 second-set pb disappear.

World fig 1 Iga Swiatek eased into the past 16 successful the women's lawsuit but sixth effect Coco Gauff was beaten.

Norrie, the 13th seed, looked beardown from the commencement against his opponent, ranked 92nd successful the world, and broke for an aboriginal 3-1 vantage and built connected that, breaking again successful the eighth game.

As the lucifer went on, Fucsovics struggled connected his service and Norrie doubly took vantage to spell 5-1 up and wrong show of victory.

However, retired of nowhere, the British fig 1 started to conflict arsenic the Hungarian staged a mini revival, doubly breaking Norrie arsenic helium served for the lucifer and redeeming 5 lucifer points - 4 connected his ain service - connected his mode to levelling it astatine 5-5.

Norrie held his nervus to spell 6-5 up but his hostile levelled again to unit the tie-break.

Despite losing the archetypal 2 points and past going 3-1 down, Norrie started to amusement the aggression that had been lacking successful the second portion of the set. He seemed to find different cogwheel and went 6-3 up earlier winning connected his seventh lucifer point.

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