Cameron Norrie relishing being public enemy No1 at French Open after second-round win

Jun 01, 2023 at 2:32 PM

ameron Norrie is relishing going from tennis’ Mr Nice Guy to Paris’ public enemy No1 after knocking out two residence favourites on the French Open.

Norrie beat Lucas Pouille in straight sets on Wednesday to succeed in the third spherical after edging a five-set marathon over one other Frenchman, Benoit Paire, in his opener.

The British No1 was repeatedly booed by a raucous crowd in each matches on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

Of his reception, he stated: “It’s a great atmosphere. It’s the matches you want to be playing. It’s really tough with the crowd chanting and definitely getting behind and changing the momentum of the match. They’re a tough crowd but, yeah, I enjoy it.

“I love it. Obviously, I’d prefer with it being on my side but it’s going to happen that way. It just so happened that I played two guys from France back to back.”

Norrie was castigated by the gang each time he struggled along with his ball toss within the windy circumstances and there was an offended response over a contentious double bounce in his favour, which wasn’t picked up by the umpire.

At the time, the No14 stated he wasn’t positive whether or not it had bounced twice however, after watching post-match replays, conceded it had. And like Pouille, he referred to as for higher expertise to keep away from a repeat.