Britain’s Cameron Norrie says he shall be doing loads of homework in a bid to lastly beat Alexander Zverev and attain the Australian Open quarter-finals.
Norrie faces the German sixth seed from 05:00 GMT on Monday however has misplaced all 4 of their earlier conferences.
“I’ll sit down and watch these matches again and see how I performed in opposition to him,” stated the nineteenth seed.
Norrie has by no means performed within the final 16 in Melbourne earlier than and is the one British participant left within the singles.
He beat three-time main finalist Ruud on Saturday in a efficiency he described as certainly one of his “finest at a Slam”, helped by aggressive play and a willingness to go to the online.
Norrie additionally had a poor file in opposition to Ruud, having misplaced his three earlier conferences with the Norwegian.
However the British males’s primary turned that streak round with the assistance of a video evaluation session along with his coach Facundo Lugones.
“I sat down with Facu and watched the matches with Casper again, and we talked so much about what wasn’t working,” Norrie stated.
“I believe there shall be quite a lot of issues in there with Zverev.
“The previous few occasions I’ve performed him it is sort of been an analogous match each time – a troublesome sort of set after which he is run away with it.
“I practised with him a few occasions in pre-season, and we performed a few actually aggressive follow matches, which was good.
“It is going to be a troublesome one however I am trying ahead to it.”
Zverev has returned to the higher echelons of the ATP Tour after recovering from tearing ligaments in his proper ankle in June 2022.
Nevertheless, his progress to the final 16 in Melbourne has not been easy.
After combating again from a set down in opposition to fellow German Dominik Koepfer within the first spherical, Zverev wanted four-and-a-half hours to beat Slovakian qualifier Lukas Klein in his subsequent match.
The previous world quantity two had a shorter night time on Saturday, beating American teenager Alex Michelson in straight units.
It was additionally introduced on Tuesday that Zverev will face a trial throughout this yr’s French Open over home abuse allegations. The 26-year-old denies the costs.
