Cameron Norrie vs Alexander Zverev LIVE: Australian Open 2024 scores and results after Daniil Medvedev result

Cameron Norrie 3-2 Alexander Zverev*

Zverev drags the sport again to 30-30 with a elegant backhand move crosscourt, however two pinpoint first serves down the T wins the sport for Norrie, the second being an ace.

*Cameron Norrie 2-2 Alexander Zverev

A maintain to fifteen this time for the German, whose solely dropped level on serve thus far was a double fault at 40-0.

Both males extraordinarily stable on serve to date.

Cameron Norrie 2-1 Alexander Zverev*

He holds to like, with two unreturnable drop photographs thrown in initially after some good first serves!

*Cameron Norrie 1-1 Alexander Zverev

A fast maintain to like for Zverev, together with his large serve too highly effective for Norrie to make any inroads early on.

Cameron Norrie 1-0 Alexander Zverev*

Excellent opening maintain from Cameron Norrie!

It was a bit bushy at 30-30 as Zverev went simply extensive with a backhand down the road, however Norrie sealed the sport beautifully with an overhead smash on the web, wrong-footing his German opponent!

Coming to the web and being aggressive goes to be key for the British No 1 at the moment…

Norrie will get us underway on this best-of-five set match on serve on Margaret Court Arena!

Both gamers are out on court docket warming up on the Margaret Court Arena.

Norrie has not overwhelmed Zverev in 4 earlier encounters – however then once more he hadn’t overwhelmed Casper Ruud in three previous matches earlier than beating him in spherical three.

Big afternoon underneath the Melbourne solar for the British No 1!

Good morning and welcome to dwell protection of Cameron Norrie’s fourth spherical match on the Australian Open in opposition to Alexander Zverev!

The British No 1 is bidding for a primary victory over a top-10 participant at a Grand Slam as he eyes a quarter-final spot. Both gamers are anticipated on Margaret Court Arena within the subsequent quarter-hour or so.

The winner will face both second seed Carlos Alcaraz or Serbian Miomir Kecmanovic, who meet within the evening session on Rod Laver Arena, whereas third seed Daniil Medvedev is presently a arrange in opposition to Portugal’s Nuno Borges earlier on Melbourne Park’s greatest court docket.

A tearful Elina Svitolina was pressured to retire with a again damage solely three video games into her fourth-round conflict with Linda Noskova on the Australian Open.

The former world quantity three, who has made a really spectacular return following the beginning of daughter Skai final yr, appeared the favorite to make the ultimate from a large open high half of the draw.

But her again locked up within the first sport of the match and she sobbed as she referred to as it a day trailing 3-0.

No matter how a lot Alex de Minaur screeched and sprinted, from side-to-side with trademark velocity and willpower, you at all times felt the admirable Australian No 1 was going to fall simply brief come the top. This fourth-round conflict in opposition to fifth seed Andrey Rublev was at all times going to be swashbuckling – if that wanted any extra readability, its night-time billing on Rod Laver Arena over ten-time champion Novak Djokovic forecasted one thing near a thriller down underneath. De Minaur spoke within the build-up of “earning the right” to fill that match-of-the-day slot.

But overlook the day: this conflict was the match of the Australian Open thus far.

This was one was at all times going 5 units. Ultimately, the final-set bagel in favour of Rublev removed from instructed the entire story. For this four-hour and 14-minute slug-athon – which ebbed and flowed in a trend the place holding serve at occasions appeared more durable than breaking serve – encapsulated the sheer ferociousness of the following technology of males’s gamers of their 20s. Rublev prevailed, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-7(4), 6-3, 6-0, and will face Jannik Sinner within the quarter-finals as he seems to be to achieve the final 4 of a Grand Slam for the very first time.