{"id":2697,"date":"2023-10-17T05:52:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-tour-cameron-norrie-and-jack-draper-both-beaten-in-opening-round-of-japan-open-tennis-news\/17\/10\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T05:52:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T09:52:59","slug":"atp-tour-cameron-norrie-and-jack-draper-both-beaten-in-opening-round-of-japan-open-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-tour-cameron-norrie-and-jack-draper-both-beaten-in-opening-round-of-japan-open-tennis-news\/17\/10\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Tour: Cameron Norrie and Jack Draper both beaten in opening round of Japan Open | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"sdc-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Cameron Norrie suffered a fourth defeat in succession as his poor form continued at the Japan Open.<\/p>\n<p>The British No 1 was not helped by drawing top seed and defending champion Taylor Fritz in the first round but his 6-4 6-3 loss made it seven defeats in his last eight matches and 11 out of 14 dating back to Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Norrie recovered from an early break of serve in the opening set in Tokyo to pull back to 4-4 only to lose consecutive service games, giving Fritz the advantage he needed.<\/p>\n<p>Fritz now faces the winner of the all-Argentinian affair between Francisco Cerundolo and Diego Schwartzman for a place in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>There was also defeat for Jack Draper but he pushed fourth seed Alex De Minaur all the way in a gruelling clash lasting three hours and five minutes. Draper, who came through qualifying, won the opening set before De Minaur fought back to take the second on a tie-break.<\/p>\n<p>Draper had the chance to serve out the match when he broke for 5-4 in the deciding set but he began to struggle with cramp and De Minaur hit straight back, eventually sealing a 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-1) victory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Stream all your favourite sports and more with NOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/tennis\/news\/12040\/12986070\/atp-tour-cameron-norrie-and-jack-draper-both-beaten-in-opening-round-of-japan-open\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Norrie suffered a fourth defeat in succession as his poor form continued at the Japan Open. The British No 1 was<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/atp-tour-cameron-norrie-and-jack-draper-both-beaten-in-opening-round-of-japan-open-tennis-news\/17\/10\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[811,515,1894,1896,1232,171,33,1895,725,577,538,212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2697\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}