{"id":53879,"date":"2023-01-04T07:39:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=53879"},"modified":"2023-01-04T07:39:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T12:39:04","slug":"cameron-norrie-fritz-united-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2023\/01\/04\/cameron-norrie-fritz-united-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie Continues to Impress With Win over Taylor Fritz at the United Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Norrie of Great Britain beat <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/05\/22\/taylor-fritz-roland-garros\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Taylor Fritz<\/a> of the United States 6-4 5-7 6-4 at the United Cup in Sydney on Wednesday to level the score at 1-1. The match lasted two hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>It was the second impressive win in the tournament for the 27-year-old Brit after his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2022\/12\/31\/two-keys-norrie-vs-nadal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">victory over Rafael Nadal<\/a> last week. Norrie now looks to have a solid preparation ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/australian-open\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Australian Open<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We will now take a look at how the match went on:<\/p>\n<h4><strong>\u00a0Both players use topspin forehands, with Norrie\u2019s backhand holding its own:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Both Norrie and Fritz played their forehands with a lot of topspin from the very beginning. It was a bit surprising that Fritz did not hit his forehands with more venom, as he is renowned for having a robust forehand.<\/p>\n<p>However, it was Norrie\u2019s backhand, which is not too much of a fancied shot, that won him a few points in the first set. Norrie got the break quite early to lead 3-1 and then kept holding his serve to draw capture the set.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"hh8u5MX4SIpqeA4oBTzHPA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1454113237\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'hh8u5MX4SIpqeA4oBTzHPA',sig:'px1DwXnNg-e4nyzVOXcFEAI_mJ2Po3Dd4vpJa1i44_0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1454113237',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Fritz hit a lot of approaches and powerful forehands as the match progressed:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Fritz kept hitting his forehand with more power and more intent as the match progressed. Moreover, the American also hit a few approaches to set up points and then finished them with volleys.<\/p>\n<p>That tactic paid off as the 25-year-old American managed to go a break up and drew level by winning the second set.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Norrie\u2019s crosscourt forehand forced Fritz to falter at times:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Norrie\u2019s crosscourt forehand typically kept targeting Fritz\u2019s backhand repeatedly and the American, despite possessing a good backhand, faltered on a few occasions to hand the Brit an advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Norrie managed to break Fritz and then finished off the match, as the American hit one of his shots wide on match point. The Brit looks a solid pick to go deep in the Australian Open and is one of the in-form players at the moment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo from Getty.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Norrie of Great Britain beat Taylor Fritz of the United States 6-4 5-7 6-4 at the United Cup in Sydney on Wednesday to level the score at 1-1. The match lasted two hours and 15 minutes. It was the second impressive win in the tournament for the 27-year-old Brit after his victory over Rafael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4311,"featured_media":53755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1688,347],"class_list":["post-53879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","tag-cameron-norrie","tag-taylor-fritz"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}