The 2024 tennis season will formally get underway on Friday in Australia, the place group-stage competitors on the United Cup is about to start. A matchup between Alex de Minaur and Cameron Norrie headlines the Australia vs. Nice Britain tie.
Alex de Minaur (AUS) vs. Cameron Norrie (GBR)
De Minaur and Norrie can be squaring off for the fourth time of their careers and for the second time on the United Cup when Australia and Nice Britain conflict in Group C on Friday night time in Perth. Norrie beat De Minaur at this occasion final season, however the Aussie leads the head-to-head sequence 2-1 due to victories on the crimson clay of Barcelona in 2022 (6-3, 5-7, 6-1) and this previous summer season in Toronto (7-5, 6-4).
Norrie’s 2023 win over De Minaur headlined a red-hot first two months for the British left-hander, however the final eight months have been a a lot completely different story. Norrie plunged to 18th within the rankings and didn’t win a number of matches at any of his ultimate 5 tournaments.
De Minaur, alternatively, parlayed his opening-round defeat of Norrie right into a runner-up efficiency on the Toronto Masters and from there the world No. 12 didn’t look again. He reached the fourth spherical of the U.S. Open and helped Australia advance to a second consecutive Davis Cup ultimate (misplaced to Italy).
“I feel I’m coming off my greatest season and a yr the place I felt like a few issues have clicked and I’ve been in a position to accomplish plenty of what I set my thoughts out to,” De Minaur defined. “However saying that, as properly, I’m fairly near breaking into that Prime 10. It’s a purpose of mine. It’s not going to come back straightforward. I’m doing all the appropriate issues. Hopefully a very good Australian summer season can put the appropriate step into the appropriate course and hopefully I can accomplish that.”
De Minaur is assured and at all times loves enjoying for his nation, so search for him to avenge his earlier United Cup loss to Norrie.
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