Cameron Norrie

Cameron Norrie (born 23 August 1995) is a South African-born British professional tennis player.

He has reached career-high rankings of world No. 8 in singles (on 12 September 2022) and No. 117 in doubles (on 13 June 2022).

Norrie has won five ATP Tour singles titles, including a Masters 1000 title at the 2021 Indian Wells Masters, and one doubles title.

He has been the British No. 1 in men's singles since October 2021.

Norrie was born in 1995 in Johannesburg, South Africa, to British microbiologist parents: his father David is from Glasgow and his mother Helen is from Cardiff.

In 1998, when Norrie was three, he and his family moved to Auckland, New Zealand, after being victims of a burglary in South Africa.

Norrie said: "I don't remember too much about it, but my mum told me it got a little bit too dangerous so we moved to New Zealand."

His parents lived in New Zealand until 2023, when they moved back to the United Kingdom.

In 2011, at age 16, he moved to his parents' native United Kingdom, where he lived in London for three years before attending Texas Christian University in Fort Worth from 2014 to 2017.

Born in South Africa, he represented New Zealand, where he grew up, before switching nationality in May 2013.

In April 2013, Norrie switched his allegiance at 17 to Great Britain, the nationality of both his parents, partly due to available funding, spending three years in London by himself.

He lived and trained at the National Tennis Centre, later residing with a host family for two years while he continued his training.

In 2013, he competed in all the Junior Grand Slams; the Australian Open for New Zealand, then for Great Britain at the French Open, Wimbledon and US Open, but only won one match, in Australia.

Norrie had difficulty on the European tennis circuit, so he considered training at an American university (Intercollegiate Tennis Association).

Norrie studied sociology on a sports scholarship at Texas Christian University (TCU) and joined the Horned Frogs university team, where he became the top-ranked male college tennis player in the US, being the first time that TCU had such an honour.

In addition, Norrie was ranked All-American three times.

In January 2013, Norrie played his first senior tournament at the ATP Auckland Open, winning the first qualifying round.

Norrie played three clay-court events in 2013; the Great Britain Futures F9 second round and F11 quarterfinals, followed by the Boy's French Open first round.

From 2014 to 2017 he studied at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth playing for its Horned Frogs team on the U.S. college tennis circuit.

On 11 October 2015, Norrie won the USA Futures F29 at Mansfield, Texas, and became ranked 706.

Back-to-back titles at the USA Futures F21 and USA Futures F23 pushed him to No. 422 in July.

A month later, at the all-British final of the Aptos Challenger, Norrie was beaten by Dan Evans and rose to No. 298.

Norrie played three events in January, reaching the semi-final of the Maui Challenger to become world No 238.

For the Davis Cup World Group match against France, Norrie joined the British team as a hitting partner.

After completing three years of his four-year university course, Norrie turned professional in June, competing at the Surbiton and Nottingham Challengers, but still had a training base at TCU in Fort Worth.

Norrie made his ATP main-draw debut at the Aegon Championships, after receiving a wild card into the singles main draw, where he was defeated by Sam Querrey in the first round.

In the 2016–17 season, Norrie was the only player to win every Big 12 match he participated in, with a 10–0 record in singles and doubles.

In spite of being seeded No 1, Norrie missed the end of season NCAA Championships and put a hold on his studies, so that he could turn professional.

In June 2017, he ended his studies at TCU to turn professional during the grass court season of the 2017 ATP Tour.

Since turning professional he has been based in Putney, southwest London (close to Wimbledon).

He was based in London from 2018 until 2022 when he moved his main residency to Monaco.

In 2018, Norrie won his debut Davis Cup match in Spain against world No. 23 Roberto Bautista Agut, despite only turning professional eight months previously, and last playing on clay in 2013.

Norrie, ranked No. 114, came from two sets down, in what former Davis Cup captain John Lloyd said was "one of the most impressive debuts of all time".

He didn't play another match on clay until the 2018 Davis Cup against Spain.

Turning 18, Norrie was ranked No. 1348 in August 2013, but a semi-final showing at the Canada Futures F6 improved his ranking to No. 973, rising to No. 637 by June 2014.

Whilst studying at university, he played only sporadically on the tour, falling to No. 1114 in October 2015.

When the Indian Wells Masters was cancelled in March 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic lock-downs, Norrie decided to fly to New Zealand to live with his parents for the rest of the year.

Cameron Norrie is a supporter of South Sydney Rabbitohs, the australian rugby league team, and Newcastle United F.C..

Norrie represented New Zealand as a junior, becoming No. 10 in the world, but received only a few thousand dollars from Tennis NZ, so his parents had to finance his overseas travel.

At fifteen, he toured the ITF's European junior circuit for five months.