By Gus "Walk-Off" Fields
There's a moment in every tight match where a player is one shot from packing his bag. Cameron Norrie stared at that moment in Montreal on Thursday, facing match point against Australia's Alex de Minaur, the world's seventh-ranked player.
He didn't blink. Norrie saved the point and rode the wave that followed, producing what BBC Sport described as a "superb fightback" to beat de Minaur at the Canadian Open.
Details of the final score and the specific sequence that turned the match weren't included in the available reporting, but the shape of the story is clear enough: a British left-hander, written off for a set and a point, refused to leave. That's the stuff that keeps a tournament's undercard worth watching even when the big names are still asleep in their hotel rooms.
De Minaur came into the match as the higher-ranked player and the presumptive favorite. For Norrie, the win is the kind of result that doesn't show up in highlight reels for long but matters plenty to a player working to climb back into the sport's upper tier.
No word yet on who Norrie faces next in Montreal. But for one night, at least, the match point that almost ended his tournament instead became the moment that defined it.
This report is based on a single BBC Sport dispatch; further match detail, including the final score, was not available at press time.
— Compiled from reporting by BBC Sport.
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