Norrie earns 200th ATP Tour win and reaches quarter-finals with Bautista Agut victory

Cameron Norrie powered into the Barcelona Open quarter-finals with a 6-4 6-3 victory in opposition to house favorite Roberto Bautista Agut.

The victory gave the British No. 1 his 2 hundredth profession win on the ATP Tour and saved him on observe for a sixth ATP title.

It seemed as if the encounter between Norrie and Bautista Agut could be carefully contested after they performed out an enchanting 26-shot rally at 1-1.

However Norrie didn’t look again after he finally hit the winner to interrupt Bautista Agut and take a 2-1 lead.

The Barcelona Open’s twelfth seed broke his opponent once more within the seventh recreation, earlier than holding to achieve a 5-3 benefit.

Though Bautista Agut crept again into the encounter by successful the following recreation, Norrie efficiently served out the set.

He then earned break factors within the first, third and ninth video games of the second set to wrap up the victory in a single hour and 24 minutes.

“I feel on the rating it was straightforward, however there have been quite a lot of robust factors in there,” Norrie informed Sky Sports activities.

“I used to be actually happy with how I dealt with myself when serving for the primary set. I had a few robust video games on the finish of the second set there and performed an excellent recreation to interrupt as effectively.

“So I used to be very, very stable and I transformed the factors once I was aggressive. I felt like I used to be transferring effectively, and I used to be happy with my footwork.”

Norrie revealed he was not conscious he had simply received his 2 hundredth match on the ATP Tour, however mentioned reaching the milestone made him really feel “excellent.”

“I did not really know that. I do know that yesterday Roberto [Bautista Agut] acquired 400. So I am midway to his. To get 400 wins is spectacular.

“I did not know that, however I am going to take that 2 hundredth win in opposition to a prime participant.”

Norrie will now come up in opposition to Tomas Martin Etcheverry, who got here again from one set all the way down to beat Brandon Nakashima 3-6 7-6(5) 6-4.

In the meantime, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina defeated Dusan Lajovic regardless of dropping a closely-fought tie-break on the finish of the primary set, finally triumphing 6-7(10) 6-3 6-1.