How a moped crash led Cameron Norrie to a Wimbledon quarter-final

He faces his first ever grand slam quarter-final clash on Tuesday as the last Briton standing at Wimbledon.

But Cameron Norrie has told how he only committed to tennis after a moped crash forced him to turn his life around.

The 26-year-old, affectionately known as Nozzer, faces unseeded Belgian David Goffin on Court One on Tuesday. He is the first British man to reach the quarter-finals since Sir Andy Murray in 2017.

Born in South Africa to a Scottish father and Welsh mother, Norrie grew up in New Zealand before attending college in the United States.

At Texas Christian university (TCU) in Fort Worth he studied sociology and played tennis for his college team known as The Horned Frogs.

But Norrie revealed that he crashed his moped in his second year after “a pretty big night and definitely a couple too many”.

The British No 1 needed six stitches on his chin and missed out on a professional tournament, leaving his college coach furious. But it was the “wake-up call” that he needed, said Norrie.

“It was a realisation that I was kind of not doing it the way I wanted to do it and making not the best decisions,” he told reporters on Monday. “I was going out more than I probably should have been, like a typical student there at TCU, enjoying myself a lot.

“After that the coaches really kicked me into gear and I was definitely more professional after that. I grew up a lot after that. From then on, I was like, OK, I want to play tennis and commit to that and do that.”

He said it was the “turning point” of his career, adding: “In the end it was a positive thing and it definitely kicked me into gear.”

He has previously told how he would have worked in “real estate” if he had not become a tennis player.

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