In Vienna, Matteo Berrettini folds Cameron Norrie after more than three hours and goes into the quarterfinals

Matteo Berrettini, world number 59, folded after more than three hours of battle British number 35 Cameron Norrie with a score of 7-6 6-7 6-4 in the second round of the ATP 500 on the indoor concrete in Vienna.

The first to save a break point was Norrie already in the first game, but it was Berrettini who lost serve, at 2-1 to the Briton. Norrie even misses four double-break balls in the sixth game and on the momentum Matteo comes back to 4-4 with a counterbreak in the seventh game. The tie-break is evenly balanced but Berrettini, after being 5-3 up, brings it home at 8-6 after missing a first set point at 6-5.

The only break point in the entire second set is the one Norrie saves in the second game. Another tie-break, which is even more hard-fought than the first: from 5-5 Norrie has three set points, Berrettini cancels them but misses a match point at 9-8, here the Briton with three consecutive points takes advantage of the fourth set point and extends the match.

No break point in the deciding set until 4-4, when Berrettini goes up 15-40 on his opponent’s serve and on the second chance takes it away from him. It is the decisive break and Berrettini finally, after three and a quarter hours of play, closes the file by holding serve at 15. In the quarterfinals, the 29-year-old Roman will face Australian Alex De Minaur.