{"id":31581,"date":"2024-06-17T14:27:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/cameron-norrie-suffers-first-round-exit-at-queens-club-as-former-wimbledon-finalist-milos-raonic-comes-through-tennis-news\/17\/06\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T14:27:03","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T18:27:03","slug":"cameron-norrie-suffers-first-round-exit-at-queens-club-as-former-wimbledon-finalist-milos-raonic-comes-through-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/cameron-norrie-suffers-first-round-exit-at-queens-club-as-former-wimbledon-finalist-milos-raonic-comes-through-tennis-news\/17\/06\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie suffers first-round exit at Queen’s Club as former Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic comes through | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cameron Norrie’s miserable run of form continued as he suffered a first-round exit at\u00a0Queen’s Club, losing out to\u00a0Milos Raonic in a three-set match. <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old, who lost his British No 1 spot to Jack Draper over the weekend, had two match points in a marathon third-set tie-break but eventually succumbed to a 7-6 (8-6) 3-6 7-6 (11-9) defeat in two hours and 15 minutes.<\/p>\n

Norrie has endured a difficult season – and a rotten few weeks – having lost eight of his last 14 matches, which includes a first-round exit at the French Open and defeat at Nottingham last week to world number 773 Jack Pinnington Jones.<\/p>\n

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A look back at the story of Jack Draper’s sensational victory at the Stuttgart Open as he became the new British No 1<\/span>
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Big-serving Canadian Raonic may have slipped to 186 in the rankings after three years of injury problems, but he is a former world No 3 and was a Wimbledon finalist in 2016.<\/p>\n

Norrie endured a set of the 33-year-old’s 140mph serves whizzing past him before pouncing in the opening tie-break, saving a set point before edging ahead.<\/p>\n

Raonic immediately broke Norrie in the second set and closed it out comfortably to force a decider, which went all the way to another tie-break.<\/p>\n

Norrie failed to convert two match points and Raonic, who hit 47 aces in total, put away his first to condemn the 2021 runner-up to an early exit.<\/p>\n

Seventh-seed Rune crashes out at Queen’s<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Holger Rune, a quarter-finalist at Wimbledon last year, had his tune-up for the tournament cut short as he was defeated 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-3 by Jordan Thompson in the first round at Queen’s.<\/p>\n

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The 21-year-old Dane, seeded seventh, secured the opening set with a first break of Thompson’s serve, but the world No 43 stepped up a gear to level the contest in a second-set tie-break, forcing a decider.<\/p>\n

He then raced into a 3-0 lead and made no mistake to grab the win over Rune, who had made it to the semi-finals at Queen’s last year.<\/p>\n

Thompson will next face the winner of Andy Murray’s first-round match-up with another Australian, Alexei Popyrin, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, third seed Grigor Dimitrov defeated Adrian Mannarino in emphatic fashion, dropping only three games in a 6-1 6-2 hammering of the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

American hopeful Frances Tiafoe was forced to retire early in the third set of his tournament opener against Australian Rinky Hijikata.<\/p>\n

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