Cameron Norrie aces Mikhail Kukushkin 7-63 6-2 in the qualifications in New York on Thursday. Norrie will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Kamil Majchrzak in the next round.

Score, report, and key facts

Kukushkin commenced this set in the best possible way after breaking Norrie in the 1st game (1-0). Nevertheless, Cameron managed to stage a good comeback to break the Kazakhstani in the 2nd (1-1) and in the 10th (5-5) game before winning the set at the tiebreak at 3.

Tiebreak

The Brit won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (1-1), 6th (4-2) and 10th (7-3) point. On the other side, Mikhail won a minibreak in the 1st (1-0) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 1-2, 2-2, 3-2, 4-2, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 7-3

Norrie converted 50% of his break points (2/4). He had 4 break points opportunities in the 2nd (0-1 15-40), the 8th (3-4 30-40) and the 10th game (4-5 15-40 and 30-40). Moreover, on the other side, Kukushkin converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had his opportunities in the 1st (0-0 15-40 and 30-40) and the 7th game (3-3 30-40).

They contested 78 points. The set was a huge battle since finally Cameron won just 2 points more than the Kazakhstani (40-38). The Brit lost 16 points on serve (25-16). On the other side, Mikhail conceded 15 points on serve (22-15).

The Brit in this set didn’t concede much to Kukushkin and without too much struggle he won 6-2 after breaking Kukushkin in the 3rd (2-1) and in the 5th (4-1) game.

An important stage of this set was when Cameron won 5 consecutive games in the 2nd set to change the score from 0-1 to 5-1.

Norrie converted 66% of his break points (2/3). He had 3 break points opportunities in the 3rd (1-1 40-A) and the 5th game (3-1 30-40 and 40-A). On the other side, the Brit didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They contested 47 points. Norrie was the one to win the set after conquering 7 more points than Kukushkin (27-20). The Brit conceded 6 points on serve (17-6). On the losing side, the Kazakhstani conceded 10 points on serve (14-10).

Match Statistics

Norrie
Kukushkin
7-63 6-2
67
67
Total points
58
58
31
31
Winners
24
24
46%
46%
Ratio Winners
41%
41%
-- Serve --
6
6
Aces
1
1
4
4
Double Faults
3
3
70%
70%
1st in
60%
60%
70%
70%
1st won
65%
65%
31/44
31/44
1st won
24/37
24/37
53%
53%
2nd won
48%
48%
10/19
10/19
2nd won
12/25
12/25
-- Break Points --
4/7
4/7
Total
2/3
2/3
57%
57%
Won
67%
67%
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At the end of the match, Norrie scored 67 points vs. Mikhail’s 58.

The Brit was pretty effective at converting 57% of the break points that he conquered (4/7). On the other side, Kukushkin didn’t lose the concentration in converting 67% of the break points that he procured points (2/3). Nonetheless, that was not enough to win the match.

After this match, the head to head between Norrie and Kukushkin is 1-1.

Draw and next match H2H: Cameron Norrie vs. Kamil Majchrzak – stats

Norrie will compete against Majchrzak in the next round.

There is no head to head record between Cameron Norrie and Kamil Majchrzak since this will be the first time that they will play each other in the main tour.

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