British number one Cameron Norrie suffered a third-round loss to Frenchman Gael Monfils after a gruelling 3 sets at Indian Wells. Former champ Norrie, 28, took the veryfirst set in a tie-break however ultimately fell to a 6-7 (5-7) 7-6 (7-5) 6-3 defeat after more than 3 hours. Monfils, 37, has now won all 4 matches he has played versus Norrie. He will face Norwegian ninth seed Casper Ruud or French teen Arthur Fils for a location in the quarter-finals. Norrie, who hadahardtime with healthproblem following his previous competition in Rio in late February, made a dominant start and broke his challengers’ serve in the opening videogame on his 6th break point. But he stoppedworking to take any of his 9 break
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