Cameron Norrie ousts Daniil Medvedev from French Open first round, beats Russian 7-5, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 7-5

With the vocal support of the Simonne Matthieu court crowd, however, the 2021 U.S. Open champion found his groove despite the windy conditions to win the third set and bag the fourth easily after claiming a remarkable 16 consecutive points.

Norrie, who reached the semi-finals at the Geneva Open last week, was out of ideas on how to outwit the elastic Medvedev, who broke for 2-1 in the decider with a lightning-fast passing shot.

The Briton, however, found the resources to break back before wrapping up victory on his first match point to hand 11th seed Medvedev his sixth first-round loss at Roland Garros.

Earlier, Last year’s runner-up Alexander Zverev cantered into the second round of the French Open with a dominant 6-3 6-3 6-4 victory over American Learner Tien on Tuesday.

The German third seed, still chasing an elusive maiden Grand Slam title, broke once in each set to advance comfortably and set up a meeting with Jesper De Jong of the Netherlands or Italian Francesco Passaro. “It was a good start to the tournament,” said Zverev.

I’m happy with the three-set win, usually it’s more four or five sets in first matches. Hopefully it will continue like this and it will be a fun two weeks here.”

The fact that Tien, the world 67, had already beaten him, helped Zverev keep his feet on the ground throughout on court Suzanne Lenglen.

“He beat a lot of great opponents – (Daniil) Medvedev at the Australian Open and me in Acapulco,” Zverev recalled.

Last year’s runner-up Alexander Zverev cantered into the second round of the French Open with a dominant 6-3 6-3 6-4 victory over American Learner Tien on Tuesday.

“He is going climb up the rankings. Today it helped that I played him once before, maybe it helped that I lost also to him. I am happy with the performance all around.”

(With agency inputs)

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