Cameron Norrie is thru to the quarter-finals of the Argentine Open after defeating wild card Facundo Diaz Acosta in a tense three-set battle.
The British No.1 took three hours to register a 4-6 7-5 7-6 win at Buenos Aires Garden Tennis Membership and fought again valiantly within the third-set tiebreaker.
Each gamers struggled to land first serves within the opening set, with Norrie double faulting on the primary level of his opening service recreation earlier than managing to carry.
Acosta and Norrie had 4 double faults between them within the first 4 video games however the Argentine had the higher hand, firing 5 straight aces to carry Love at 4-3.
He had two break factors within the subsequent match, however Norrie held serve earlier than coming unstuck within the tenth recreation to lose the primary set.
Within the second set, each gamers missed two break factors within the first two video games, and it seemed like Norrie was dealing with an early exit when he was damaged within the fourth recreation.
He missed two probabilities to come back again right away, however fought again on the third probability earlier than he mustered up the braveness to stage issues up.
Acosta beat Norrie towards to be one recreation away from successful the match, however Norrie dug deep to win 4 straight to drive a deciding third set.
Norrie struck first within the first set to steer 2-1, earlier than Acosta broke to carry the decider to a tie-break.
Regardless of successful the mini-break and main 4-1, Acosta could not see a memorable victory over the Wimbledon semi-finalist, who recovered to e book his place within the quarter-final towards Tomas Martin Etcheverry.
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