Cameron Norrie certainly never stopped trying. Even as game after game fell away and the match rushed to an increasingly unavoidable outcome, his footwork remained pristine, he continued to land as many returns as he could and he searched diligently for solutions.
But unlike for so much of the past 12 months, no solutions came. In just one hour, 42 minutes, Sebastian Korda dismantled Norrie, the 12th seed, 6-3, 6-0, 6-4 in the first round of the Australian Open.
