Cameron Norrie desires VAR launched into tennis regardless of benefitting from a nasty name in his newest win on the French Open. The British No.1 infuriated his opponent Lucas Pouille - and the house crowd - when he claimed an enormous level within the third set after the ball had bounced twice on his facet.

The Wimbledon semi-finalist then instantly broke the Frenchman’s serve on his approach to a ruthless 6-1 6-3 6-3 win.

And Norrie was jeered and booed once more throughout his courtside interview with Marion Bartoli earlier than explaining in his press convention: “When it happened, I didn't realise it had bounced twice. I just watched it now just before coming here, and I think it looks like it did bounce twice. I think it's up to the umpire to call that. The other day I had one against me, and it looks like today I had one for me.”

Norrie was hit with a hindrance name for grunting throughout his first spherical win - and fellow Brit Dan Evans was penalised for a controversial foot fault throughout his defeat.

And the British No.1 continued: “I think that would be great to use the technology - it definitely can be used to our advantage. We have it there. We all make mistakes. The umpires make mistakes. They're human beings. We should be using the video.”

Pouille informed Greek chair umpire Eva Asderaki on the time: “It’s crazy, it’s crazy. It touched the floor! It’s your only job now except for saying the score.”

But the previous French No.1 later refused guilty Norrie for the incident. “You have no obligation to say anything,” stated Pouille. “You do whatever you want. But we have so many options to check if it bounced twice or not. It's easy with the video. You show it on the screen, and you see straight away if it bounced or not because apparently they showed it on TV.”

Norrie has been no stranger to controversy just lately as he hit Novak Djokovic with a ball in Rome - after which reopening the spat right here by criticising the Serb for his poor time-keeping earlier than that match.

And final evening he additionally aggravated the native followers by beating his second Frenchman of the event. After seeing off Benoit Paire in 5 units on the identical Court Suzanne-Lenglen, the British No.1 ended the world No.675’s Grand Slam comeback after Pouille took day trip final yr to combat melancholy and alcoholism. Norrie took the primary set in 24 minutes and broke the Pouille serve seven occasions.

“There was a great atmosphere,” Norrie informed the gang. “Sorry to take another Frenchman out but hopefully you can support me in the next one.”

He will subsequent meet Italian No.17 seed Lorenzo Musetti on Friday. Norrie is scheduled to face world No.1 Carlos Alcaraz within the fourth spherical. The US Open champion dropped a set in opposition to Taro Daniel of Japan earlier than successful 6-1 3-6 6-1 6-2.

“I'm really happy with the level that I played today,” stated the Spaniard.