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6ft 11in American Tennis Star’s Nasty Swipe at Australian Open Seeding As Cameron Norrie Receives Giant Push

Published 01/09/2023, 7:15 AM EST

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Where is Cameron Norrie ranked in the ATP ranking system? The answer to this is very clear, the 27-year-old tennis player holds the world no. 12 rank. But, it feels like someone has taken the world number 12 as the world number two, but who? However, Reilly Opelka strangely figured out the problem without creating much chaos. 

After Naomi Osaka and Venus Williams, the 25-year-old tennis player also joins the list. The American tennis player has also withdrawn his name from the Australian Open after struggling with hip and ankle injuries for the last couple of months. However, he might be not seen on the tennis court but he is definitely not disappearing from his social media.

Opelka points out the error with the seeding of Cameron Norrie

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After raising a lot of questions on the doubles tennis players and the Tennis fraternity regarding other concerns. This time the 25-year-old dropped a hint that he might have a bunch of questions related to a blunder by a well-known tennis Twitter account. 

The official Twitter account for TCU men’s tennis sent good luck wishes for the 27-year-old British tennis player by sharing a picture of him and writing, “Two days ’till the No. 2 seed in the Australian Open gets rolling Down Under.” However, it feels like the famous Twitter account forgot to add 1 while writing his ranking. Seeing the ranking blunder, the world number 28 couldn’t keep his calm and mocked the Twitter account by not sharing much of the inside detail. 

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He retweeted the post and wrote, “I have so many questions..” Nevertheless, feels like this time the controversial 25-year-old tennis player is quite correct on the problem he figured out that should have been taken care of. After his startling statements about the double tennis players. This mocking with less controversial words might create a positive fan base for the 25-year-old player. 

What Opelka said about the doubles players 

It was just a month ago that the American tennis star resorted to Twitter to vent about a supporter who had urged him to take part in the double match. Opelka, however, asserted that tennis doubles players were the most overplayed athlete at the time. He also revealed that the donations from individual players cover the majority of their costs.

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And when a supporter asserted that the 25-year-old hardly qualifies as an athlete. The American tennis player claims that, rather than competing in the doubles match. He donates 20% of his money to the doubles website, which is adequate for his contribution towards the Dubs player.

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Pratishtha Prakash

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Pratishtha Prakash is a Tennis writer at EssentiallySports. She has completed her Bachelor’s degree in Mass Media and Journalism from MIT ADT University, Pune. In the past, she has interned at the sports desk of The Hitavada, a regional English daily newspaper.
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Akash Pandhare