Norrie reels off eight straight games against Duckworth to set up Fritz clash

Britain’s Cameron Norrie won the last eight games of the match to beat Australia’s James Duckworth 7-5, 6-0 in 1 hour 3 minutes on Monday and reach the last 16 of the Stockholm Open. He will next face top seed Taylor Fritz, who had a first-round bye.

How Norrie beat Duckworth

Neither player faced a break point until 5-5 in the first set. Norrie then broke Duckworth on his third chance of the game and served out the set.

The second set was one-way traffic. Norrie broke three times and saved the only break point he faced, at 3-0. Duckworth made 16 unforced errors in that set alone, and Norrie none, according to Flashscore.

Norrie served 10 aces and won 34 of his 39 points on his first serve.

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Norrie faces Fritz next

Fritz came close to a place at the ATP Finals in Paris last week. He held two match points against Carlos Alcaraz in the quarter-finals, but lost 6-7 (10), 7-5, 6-3. The American is an alternate in Turin.

Norrie also arrived from the Rolex Paris Masters, where he beat Matteo Arnaldi 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 before losing to Ben Shelton 6-3, 6-4 in the second round. The former World No. 8 has not won a title since Rio de Janeiro in 2023, where he beat Alcaraz 5-7, 6-4, 7-5 in the final.

Bybit Stockholm Open 2026 first-round results

Cameron Norrie d. James Duckworth 7-5, 6-0
Arthur Rinderknech vs Miomir Kecmanovic
Holger Rune vs Zizou Bergs (8)
Leo Borg (WC) vs Toby Samuel (Q)
Borna Gojo (Q) d. Tomas Machac 6-3, 6-4
Ugo Humbert (7) d. Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 6-4, 6-3
Alex Michelsen (6) d. Yannick Hanfmann 6-2, 6-3
Juan Manuel Cerundolo d. Elias Ymer (WC) 6-1, 7-6 (4)
Lorenzo Sonego (Q) vs Quentin Halys
Tomas Martin Etcheverry (5) vs Max Dahlin (WC)
Thiago Agustin Tirante d. Jaume Munar 7-6 (3), 6-3
Adrian Mannarino (LL) vs Alexander Shevchenko (Q)

In bold: today’s results.