Wimbledon – In front of William and Kate, Cameron Norrie joins Djokovic in half after his victory against David Goffin

A whole kingdom is watching him. Six years after the last appearance of a Briton in the semi-finals of Wimbledon, Andy Murray, who was even the winner in 2016, Cameron Norrie made the Wimbledon public overjoyed by qualifying for the last four of the Grand Slam on grass.

Under the eyes of part of the royal family, William and his wife Kate, were indeed present in the stands of court n°1, and of a white-hot public, the brilliant left-hander went to seek his victory at the arm strength.

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It took five sets (3-6, 7-5, 2-6, 6-3, 7-5 and 3:38 for Norrie to overcome the tough David Goffin, a complement found during this Wimbly 2022. He will play the triple defending champion Novak Djokovic for a place in the final. It will be the equivalent of climbing Everest, but the 12th in the world has worked like hell for four years, since his arrival in the Top 100, to reach this stage of a Grand Slam tournament.

A forehand that felt good

Like Djokovic a few hours earlier, Norrie had to get out of the clutches of his opponent to make the difference in what was a close and very undecided match. Everything was therefore played on details. Once back to two sets everywhere, after being led one set to nothing and two sets to one, Norrie dropped his shots, to the point of making his game quite unreadable, even more unreadable.

It was mainly with his forehand changes of direction that he surprised the metronome Goffin. His ground coverage and defensive play were also important weapons in the quest for this success. More complete than you might think, Norrie suffered above all from not having a more impactful first ball. He will have to settle this to hinder Djokovic.

The native of Johannesburg went for the decisive break at 5-5 in the last act. By making his opponent play the shot in addition, slightly tired at the end, after this thriller. Two unforced errors and two caused errors from Goffin allowed Norrie to get this decisive white break, while the super tie-break was pointing the tip of his nose.

He then buckled on his serve, not without suffering the last stand of the 58th in the world. Without tomorrow. It was indeed the day of glory for Norrie, while waiting to challenge the master of the place.

Cameron Norrie

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