Cam Norrie rubs salt into Daniil Medvedev's wounds with brutal comments

admitted it was nice to see "freaking out" during their match at the French Open after the world No. 11 "chopped him" in their four previous meetings.

The British No. 3 had never won a set against Medvedev until today, but he saved his best tennis for the biggest stage and caused a huge upset at the French Open, winning the last four games of their opening match

Norrie's aggressive style of play caused Medvedev all sorts of problems, as he became flustered and started chuntering towards his box during the first two sets. It was a pleasant sight for the world No. 81, who had never been able to trouble the former US Open winner in the past.

"Actually every time I played Daniil, he's never, never snapped. He's never said anything. He's just completely locked in and he chops me every time," Norrie said.

"It was quite nice in the first set to see him kind of a little bit freaking out and talking to his box and trying to look for answers and solutions.

"I felt I was winning a lot of the longer rallies. Against him it's not easy to do. I thought I was troubling him with my game style and the way I was making it physical.

"Yeah, you take a small little confidence boost from that. He's ready for the next point and he's a great competitor. He's honestly one of my favourite players.

"The way he plays, the way he moves, the way he makes it so difficult for the other player, I love watching him play. Yeah, he's a good player. He's a very nice guy. Yeah, he's one of the kings of competitiveness. No, just nice to beat him."

Norrie has been ranked as high as No. 8 in the world, but he now sits outside of the world's top 80 and has had to enter three of his last four tournaments as a qualifier or lucky loser. And he's thriving in his new position as the "underdog".

He added: "I think it's part of the game. For me, yeah, you have to accept where you are. For me, I had to go play qualies last week in Geneva. I was so pumped to play, so pumped to prove myself again.

"It's actually quite fun to have that opportunity now to go. You're the underdog again, finally. You can go and play.

"Anyone you play, you're most likely the underdog. You can go play, no expectations. It's so much fun. You can go and play. It's a completely different perspective."

But Norrie won't be the underdog in his next match, as he takes on Argentine world No. 144 Federico Gomez, who got into the draw as a lucky loser and beat Aleksandar Kovacevic in his opening main-draw match.

"He's a great player. Fedi Gomez, I practised with him a couple times in Florida. Massive forehand. Massive serve. I know on his day, he's very tough to beat," the Brit said of his next opponent.

"Yeah, he must be playing well to beat Kovacevic on the clay. It's a huge win."