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Briton Cameron Norrie has mentioned he should be “proactive” and “aggressive” when he takes on Andrey Rublev for a spot within the US Open quarter-finals.
The pair face off at 16:00 BST on Monday on Louis Armstrong Stadium.
Seventh seed Norrie has already gone additional than he ever has earlier than at Flushing Meadows.
Ought to he get previous ninth-seeded Russian Rublev, Norrie will play both Rafael Nadal or Frances Tiafoe on Wednesday.
4-time winner Nadal faces American twenty second seed Tiafoe within the final 16 on Arthur Ashe Stadium at about 19:00.
“I believe I’ll should be very proactive and be the one dictating the purpose as a lot as I can,” Norrie mentioned.
“Clearly there’s going to be occasions, lots of occasions, I’ll should defend, however I’ll should be aggressive.”
Norrie, who reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon in July, has but to drop a set in New York, beating Holger Rune 7-5 6-4 6-1 within the third spherical on Saturday.
Rublev had a way more draining earlier match, coming by a final-set tie-break in a four-hour epic in opposition to Denis Shapovalov.
The pair have performed twice earlier than, with Rublev profitable in St Petersburg in 2020 and Norrie popping out on prime final 12 months in San Diego.
“He strikes very well. It should be lengthy rallies, it should be psychological; it should be a very bodily match,” mentioned Rublev.
“It should be sensible tennis as a result of, to beat him, it’s a must to play actually sensible.”
If Norrie can win, he could be the primary British man to succeed in the US Open quarter-finals since Andy Murray in 2016.
What else is occurring on day eight?
American eighth seed Jessica Pegula’s match with two-time Wimbledon winner Petra Kvitova begins Monday’s motion on Arthur Ashe Stadium at 17:00 earlier than Nadal’s quarter-final with Tiafoe.
After Norrie’s match on Louis Armstrong, ladies’s world primary Iga Swiatek, of Poland, takes on unseeded German Jule Niemeier.
Following that, three-time finalist Victoria Azarenka, of Belarus, performs Czech twenty second seed Karolina Pliskova earlier than, within the males’s occasion, unseeded Belarusian Ilya Ivashka faces Italian eleventh seed Jannik Sinner.
Within the night time session on Ashe from 00:00, Belarusian sixth seed Aryna Sabalenka faces American nineteenth seed Danielle Collins earlier than Dan Evans’ conqueror Marin Cilic, the 2014 champion, performs Spanish third seed Carlos Alcaraz.
Within the males’s doubles third spherical, Briton Lloyd Glasspool and Finn Harri Heliovaara tackle Australian Open champions Nick Kyrgios and Thanasi Kokkinakis, whereas Neal Skupski and Dutchman Wesley Koolhof face one other Australian pairing, Matthew Ebden and Max Purcell, who gained the Wimbledon title in July.
