{"id":44401,"date":"2025-02-25T04:24:58","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/mexican-open-cameron-norrie-beaten-by-american-teenager-learner-tien-in-opening-round-tennis-news\/25\/02\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T04:24:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:24:58","slug":"mexican-open-cameron-norrie-beaten-by-american-teenager-learner-tien-in-opening-round-tennis-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/mexican-open-cameron-norrie-beaten-by-american-teenager-learner-tien-in-opening-round-tennis-news\/25\/02\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Open: Cameron Norrie beaten by American teenager Learner Tien in opening round | Tennis News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-component-name=\"ui-article-body\" data-highlight-intro=\"true\">\n<p>Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie was sent packing by teenager Learner Tien in the opening round of the Mexican Open.<\/p>\n<p>The British No 2 lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 to the 19-year-old, who is ranked 83 in the world, in an hour and 52 minutes in Acapulco.<\/p>\n<p>Tien made a strong start, leading 4-1 in the opening set before Norrie recovered and served for the set at 5-4. However, the Brit was broken, with Tien also winning the tie-break before taking control of the second set.<\/p>\n<p>Norrie had won his only previous meeting against Tien in Hong Kong earlier this year, beating him in straight sets, 6-3 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>Tien will face the winner of the match between Alexander Zverev and Matteo Arnaldi in the second round.<\/p>\n<p>Second seed Casper Ruud booked his place in the next round with a 6-4 6-4 victory over France&#8217;s Arthur Rinderknech.<\/p>\n<p>Third seed Tommy Paul eased past Canada&#8217;s Gabriel Diallo 6-2 6-2, while American Ben Shelton, the tournament&#8217;s fifth seed, battled past Cobolli 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-4) to go through to the second round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the ATP and WTA Tours, as well as the US Open, live on Sky Sports Tennis in 2025 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nowtv.com\/watch-sky-sports-online?DCMP=ilc_skysports_nc_articlelink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stream with NOW<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/football\/news\/11677\/12572660\/download-the-sky-sports-app-premier-league-goals-f1-race-control-and-more-at-your-fingertips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sky Sports App<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skysports.com\/tennis\/news\/12040\/13316604\/mexican-open-cameron-norrie-beaten-by-american-teenager-learner-tien-in-opening-round\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&rsquo;s Cameron Norrie was sent packing by teenager Learner Tien in the opening round of the Mexican Open. The British No 2<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/mexican-open-cameron-norrie-beaten-by-american-teenager-learner-tien-in-opening-round-tennis-news\/25\/02\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44404,"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":[2211,515,1894,6752,5463,33,1895,725,577,2422,538,6753],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401"}],"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=44401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44403,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44401\/revisions\/44403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}