Rinderknech defeated by Norrie, the Blues bow to Great Britain

Arthur Rinderknech (71st worldwide) did honor to his first selection for the French Davis Cup team, but he could not avoid a defeat on Saturday against Cameron Norrie (12th) 6-2, 7-6 (10/8) , thus recording the defeat of the Blues against Great Britain after the failure of Mannarino against Evans.

The French, difficult winners Thursday of the Czech Republic, now count on a victory of their double Nicolas Mahut / Pierre-Hugues Herbert against the British Jo Salisbury / Neal Skupski to limit the damage for a possible qualification as best second .

Better in the second set

In the first set, Rinderknech’s dyke held to 2-2 before giving in and allowing a wave to pass: Norrie had four games in a row. The French stopped the bleeding at the start of the second set by winning his throw-in before offering himself three break points. But Norrie held her face-off and tied it at 1-1.

Based on a very good serve, Rinderknech held in the second set until the tie-break. In the decisive game, he immediately hit the minibreak and led 4-1, but Norrie came back to 4-4 and then offered himself a first match point at 6 points to 5, well saved by the Frenchman on his serve. . After saving two set points for Rinderknech, Norrie then got a second match point, on his serve this time, and did not fail to conclude after 2:06 of play.