Norrie left rueing small margins in Queen's loss

Cameron Norrie rued small margins as he suffered defeat in the quarter-finals at the LTA's cinch Championships. Norrie was beaten 6-4 7-6(1) by Sebastian Korda, with the big-serving American dominating the decisive tiebreak to book his place in the last four. Ad The British No.1 looked down and out after Korda broke early in the second set having eased through the first, but Norrie broke back to force a tiebreak.

TennisReid relishing renewal of rivalry with fellow Brit Hewett5 MINUTES AGO But Korda quelled the raucous home crowd and Norrie's momentum with his relentless service game and strong defence before finally breaking the Briton. And Norrie admitted it was his inability to take advantage in the big moments that was his ultimate undoing, but backed himself to be ready for a deep run at SW19. He said: «He served and returned really well today and made it difficult for me to find some rhythm.

I think I did well to get myself in the match but pretty disappointed with the way I finished the match. »I fought really hard to get back into the match and then played a very loose start to the tiebreak and he capitalised on that. «In that first set I had a lot of chances on his serve at the beginning of the match and I didn't capitalise.

»I was returning great but a couple of times I missed a couple of second serve returns and missed a couple of rally balls that I wouldn't usually do. «I needed to tidy up the errors at the end in the second. It's those small moments on the grass you have to ride them mentally or the chances can go quickly he did a great job of serving his way out of trouble in those moments.» Korda will face top seed Carlos Alcaraz in the last four, after the 20-year-old Spaniard came through a tight contest