Cameron Norrie has spent much of his career relishing the physical, defence-based playing style that has driven him; his ability to grind any given player on any day in to the dust.
This week in Melbourne Park, however, Norrie has shown something more. He has played with a renewed freedom and variety that has elevated his game, which he demonstrated by going toe‑to‑toe with one of the best players in the world before narrowly losing 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (3) against the sixth seed Alexander Zverev in the fourth round of the Australian Open.
