Australian Open 2024 updates

Cameron Norrie defeats Casper Ruud to reach the fourth round of Australian Open

19^th seeded British number one Cameron Norrie displayed a fine scoreboard at the Australian Open 2024 after he beat 11^th seeded Casper Ruud from Norway. Norrie won the match, 6-4, 6-7 (7-9), 6-4, 6-3 in Melbourne.

After defeating the three-time Grand Slam finalist, Casper Ruud, Norrie is the first British player to advance to the fourth round of the Australian Open since Kyle Edmund in 2018. Norrie had never beaten a player ranked as high as Ruud at a major tournament and had also lost all of his previous matches against Ruud.

norrie

Norrie in the post-match presentation said, “I had to play really brave and almost won that second set, but I didn’t let it bother me and it was a good mental performance.”

Norrie had to come up with a solid game plan and had to do something different against the Norwegian and that was quickly proven to us as he wanted to force the pace against the solid baseliners. He outplayed Ruud in all of the departments and played and placed his shots accurately and perfectly.

ruud

Rudd won the set on a tiebreak. He nevertheless felt the pressure of Norrie’s serve which eventually made him a little tired and thus the winner emerged as Norrie.

Iga Swiatek crashes out of Australian Open 2024

In the biggest upset of Australian Open 2024 of the women’s draw, world No.1 Iga Swiatek crashes out of the Australian Open 2024. Iga was defeated by her opponent Linda Noskova.

The 19-year-old Czech was playing her first third round of a Grand Slam for the first time but that did not stop her from recording her biggest victory of her career.

Niskova surfed through the sets in 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 and won her biggest win of her career so far.

linda

The big guns of the women’s draw, Elina Rybakina, Ons Jabeur and Iga Swiatek took their flights back home after their surprising defeats at the Australian Open 2024.

iga