Cameron Norrie beat David Goffin to reach the Lyon quarter-finals, while Harriet Dart lost in French Open qualifying. The British men's No. 1, the second seed for the ATP 250 event, has had a mixed clay campaign to date, failing to get past the last 16 of any event.
Ad But he was impressive in downing former world No. 7 Goffin in straight sets 6-3 6-4, especially as he trailed 3-1 in the second set. ATP Rome'It's not fair play' — Djokovic accuses Norrie of gamesmanship after smash incident16/05/2023 AT 13:25 Norrie, the current world No.
14, will face sixth seed Sebastian Baez in the quarter-finals as he bids to defend the title he won last year. The 27-year-old Brit will be hoping to improve on his best showing at the upcoming French Open — a third round appearance in both 2022 and 2021. Jack Draper is also in action in Lyon this week, and will play his quarter-final match against Francisco Cerundolo on Thursday, having beaten fifth seed Miomir Kecmanovic on Tuesday.
Meanwhile in qualifying for Roland-Garros, Dart suffered a disappointing defeat to France's Elsa Jacquemot. Dart raced through the first set to take it 6-1, but the match swung back the other way thereafter. Federer, Nadal and Djokovic feats 'incredible', Alcaraz 'has long way to go' — Schett McEnroe: Nadal reminds me of LeBron, could win French Open next year First Dart lost the second set by the same 6-1 scoreline, and then couldn't find the answers she needed in the decider, succumbing 6-2.
It was a similar story for fellow Brit Jan Choinski, who looked assured in taking the opening set in his qualifying match against Sebastian Ofner of Austria, 6-3. However he lost the second set 6-4 and then was bagelled in the last. Elsewhere in Paris, there were
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