Cameron Norrie defeats Frances Tiafoe in Wimbledon warm-up exhibition

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Cameron Norrie defeated Frances Tiafoe in the Giorgio Armani Tennis Classic exhibition. </p>

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The left-handed British star continued his preparations for the upcoming Wimbledon with a 6-3 3-6 10-6 victory over world number ten Frances Tiafoe. </p>

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Norrie had come into this exhibition event on the back of an impressive showing at Queen's where he managed to reach the last eight before losing to American Sebastien Korda. </p>

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The 27-year-old Brit showed his intentions early on in his encounter against Tiafoe, taking the opening game on serve with an ace and forcing an early break chance to go 3-1 up. </p>

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Tiafoe, who recently won the Stuttgart Open title on grass and defeated Norrie when they last met in the quarter-finals at Indian Wells in March, fought until the score was 5-3 before the British star produced a backhand winner to close the first set. </p>

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A breakpoint was survived by the American in the second set before he converted his own in the sixth game, opening up a 5-2 lead and then serving out to level the match. </p>

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Due to exhibition regulations, a ten-point match tie-breaker decides the winner instead of playing a third set. </p>

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World number 13 Norrie then managed to force some errors from Tiafoe, which led to his first mini-break at 6-4 before going on to convert a match point on serve and completing the win. </p>

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The 2023 Rio Open winner will take on Norwegian world number four Casper Ruud at Hurlingham on Thursday. </p>

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