Britain’s lone quarter-finalist Cameron Norrie is emerging as the anti-Kyrgios of this tournament: a ferociously hard-working character whose matches involve zero aggro and no grandstanding.
So sickening was Zhou Guanyu’s upside-down crash at Silverstone, and so chilling the wait for any update on his condition, that Leonora Martell-Surtees was contemplating whether to leave the circuit early. As the daughter of the great John Surtees, the only man ever to win world championships on both two and four wheels, the sight of the Chinese driver’s shattered Alfa Romeo triggered hideous flashbacks.
The start of Wimbledon’s second week has long basked in its own, self-glorifying moniker. Borrowing the title of the Bangles’ 1986 hit single this always used to be Manic Monday, the day when all the fourth round men’s and women’s singles matches were completed. It was a whirlwind schedule in which drama could spring up at any point on any court spread across the All England Club. Not this year. This year Manic Monday is no more.
No British singles players were in action on Monday but Cameron Norrie was preparing for his last-eight tie.