Queen's 2023 results: Cameron Norrie and Ryan Peniston win but Dan Evans loses at Cinch Championships

Cameron Norrie marked his archetypal quality connected the British writer courts since past year's Wimbledon semi-finals with a assured triumph astatine Queen's.

Compatriot Ryan Peniston, who reached the quarter-finals past year, earned an awesome triumph connected his instrumentality aft being fixed a wildcard.

The satellite fig 265 shocked 37th-ranked Frenchman Ugo Humbert 6-4 6-2.

Dan Evans, Britain's 2nd highest-ranked man, was incapable unafraid a hat-trick of location victories arsenic helium mislaid 6-4 7-5 to American Sebastian Korda.

A engaged time for the British contingent volition beryllium rounded disconnected erstwhile 167th-ranked Jan Choinski - different subordinate fixed a wildcard - takes connected Italian sixth effect Lorenzo Musetti.

Former satellite fig 1 Andy Murray, who won the ATP Challenger tourney successful Nottingham connected Sunday, plays his opening lucifer connected Tuesday.

Five-time singles champion Murray faces a measurement up successful people erstwhile helium takes connected Australian seventh effect Alex de Minaur.

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Norrie blessed to beryllium backmost connected location turf

Two weeks aft losing successful the 3rd circular connected the French Open clay, Norrie was backmost connected location turf arsenic helium looks to replicate a thrilling tally astatine Wimbledon 12 months ago.

The 27-year-old is lone readying to vie astatine Queen's earlier Wimbledon begins connected 3 July and his nonsubjective of playing arsenic galore matches arsenic imaginable this week started positively.

Norrie edged a choky opening acceptable by breaking to emotion successful the 10th crippled and gained further power by taking 40th-ranked Kecmanovic's service aboriginal successful the 2nd set.

While the Serb instantly broke back, Norrie had a accidental to seal the lucifer successful the 12th crippled but had to beryllium patient, yet taking his 5th lucifer constituent erstwhile Kecmanovic deed a stretching forehand long.

"It feels bully to beryllium backmost connected the writer and backmost playing successful London," said Norrie, who had led 6-2 successful the tie-break.

"It wasn't casual to get implicit the line, I had a mates of chances towards the extremity of the 2nd set, I donated my service astatine 3-1 and past helium saved a fig of lucifer points.

"I was gladsome to spot the forehand alert agelong astatine the end. It is ever tricky successful the archetypal lucifer connected writer and determination are a fewer things to enactment on, but I enjoyed that."

Norrie volition look either Australian Jordan Thompson oregon 2016 Wimbledon runner-up Milos Raonic of Canada.

Peniston bare for much Queen's success

Peniston, 27, reached a career-high of 123rd successful the satellite past summertime connected the backmost of a superb tally to the Queen's quarter-finals, which besides brought his inspiring communicative of beating crab arsenic a kid to a wider audience.

The left-hander from Essex was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma - a brushed insubstantial tumour - astatine the property of one, needing chemotherapy and country implicit 18 months earlier recovering.

After registering eye-catching victories implicit Norwegian apical effect Casper Ruud and Argentine satellite fig 46 Francisco Cerundolo to scope the past 8 past year, Peniston said helium hoped his household would beryllium "very proud" of his journey.

Since past helium has dropped extracurricular the apical 250 and, aft not playing successful the main gully of a top-level lawsuit successful 2023, was fixed a wildcard astatine the westbound London nine this year.

Peniston justified that determination with different memorable show against 24-year-old Humbert, who won the grass-court rubric successful Halle 2 years agone but was out-of-sorts against the British fig seven.

"I loved playing present past twelvemonth truthful to travel backmost feels beauteous comfy connected the court," said Peniston, who besides has the unit of defending the ranking points helium earned 12 months ago.

"It gave maine a batch of assurance I tin play astatine that level and gave maine the hunger to bash it more."

Peniston volition look Danish 2nd effect Holger Rune oregon American Maxime Cressy successful the 2nd round.

Evans outclassed by awesome Korda

Evans, ranked 25th, suffered what helium described arsenic a "difficult loss" successful the French Open archetypal circular but said the affirmative helium could instrumentality from an aboriginal exit was having much clip to hole connected the grass.

On Sunday, the 33-year-old revealed helium divided from Argentine manager Sebastien Prieto past week aft mutually deciding it was "the champion mode to determination forward".

But successful his archetypal lucifer since they parted ways, Evans was incapable to gain a triumph which could person provided immoderate much-needed momentum earlier Wimbledon.

Evans struggled to marque a dent connected 32nd-ranked Korda's service and the awesome American, playing successful lone his 5th lucifer since the Australian Open successful January due to the fact that of a wrist injury, utilized that unit to interruption the Briton towards the extremity of each set.

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