Cameron Norrie dispatches Thomas Fabbiano 6-4 6-4 in the qualifications in Shanghai on Sunday. Norrie will have to play Gilles Simon in the 1st round.
Score, report, and key facts
1st set.
The set was even with both players refusing to concede anything to the opposition. Eventually, the only discrepancy was one break that Norrie conquered in the 9th game (5-4) before winning the set (6-4).
2nd set.
The Brit won the set after recovering from 1 break down. In fact, after conceding his serve in the 6th (2-4) game, The Brit broke back in the 7th (3-4) and in the 9th (5-4) game before winning the set 6-4.
Fabbiano couldn’t stop the opposition in the last 4 games of the set (from 2-4 to 6-4).
Statistics
At the end of the match, Cameron scored 71 points vs. Thomas’s 59 points.
The Brit served extremely well to win 80% of the points (35/44) behind his first serve. Yet he won only 42% points (8/19) on his second serve. Norrie won this match even if he was battling in converting his break points since he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, the Italian wasn’t that great in converting his break points since he converted only 25% of his break points (1/4). That was one of the key issues for his defeat.
After this match, the head to head between Norrie and Fabbiano is 1-0 for Cameron.
Next Match: Cameron Norrie vs. Gilles Simon – stats
Norrie will square off with Simon in the 1st round.
This will be the 2nd time that Cameron Norrie and Gilles Simon clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Simon (see full H2H stats), but they have never played each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Simon won 6-1 7-66 in the semifinal in Lyon back in 2018.
Tennis Scores in Shanghai
- Jeremy ChardyChardy – Daniel EvansEvans (2-6 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Alexander BublikBublik – Yoshihito NishiokaNishioka (6-3 6-2) – See score progression
- Vasek PospisilPospisil – Marcel GranollersGranollers (7-5 7-62) – See score progression
- Juan Ignacio LonderoIgnacio Londero – Bradley KlahnKlahn (6-4 7-68) – See score progression
- Cameron NorrieNorrie – Thomas FabbianoFabbiano (6-4 6-4) – See score progression
- Marco CecchinatoCecchinato – Damir DzumhurDzumhur (7-5 6-3) – See score progression
- Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta – Dominik KoepferKoepfer (6-3 6-1) – See score progression
Upcoming matches
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- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (0-0) – See H2H details
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