Norrie was beaten 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 and was at a loss to explain his difficult start to the yearThe momentum that Cameron Norrie built up in 2021 has not carried forward into the new season, as the British No 1 made a strikingly tame early exit from the Australian Open yesterday with his fourth consecutive defeat of the year. Norrie, 26, was a shadow of the impenetrable workhorse who shot up the rankings last season to a career high of No 12 in the world. Against the talented 21-year-old Sebastian Korda — the son of the 1998 Melbourne Park champion, Petr Korda — he struggled to gain a foothold in the rallies and made too many unforced errors, going down 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 to the American in one hour and 42 minutes. Sponsored“I think that’s my worst match in the last eight months,”

Source: The Times January 17, 2022 17:39 UTC