{"id":27893,"date":"2026-04-06T01:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/monte-carlo-masters-cameron-norrie-beats-miomir-kecmanovic-in-round-one\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:20:00","slug":"monte-carlo-masters-cameron-norrie-beats-miomir-kecmanovic-in-round-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/monte-carlo-masters-cameron-norrie-beats-miomir-kecmanovic-in-round-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo Masters: Cameron Norrie beats Miomir Kecmanovic in round one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie began his clay-court season on a winning note with a 6-2 4-6 7-6 (7-0) victory over Serbia&#8217;s Miomir Kecmanovic in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After dominating the opening set, Norrie, who had not won a match at the tournament since 2019, struggled in the second. He dropped serve three times, including in his final two service games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decider proved tense, with the Briton broken by the world number 58 when serving for the match at 5-4 ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in the tie-break it was world number 24 Norrie &#8211; British number one again after leapfrogging Jack Draper in March &#8211; who raised his game to come through.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old will next face a rematch with Australian world number six Alex de Minaur, whom he defeated on his way to the quarter-finals in Indian Wells last month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cde5rn76j44o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Cameron Norrie began his clay-court season on a winning note with a 6-2 4-6 7-6 (7-0) victory over Serbia&#8217;s Miomir Kecmanovic in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters. After dominating the opening set, Norrie, who had not won a match at the tournament since 2019, struggled in the second. He dropped serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27895,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions\/27895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}