The French, difficult winners Thursday of the Czech Republic, now count on a victory of their double Nicolas Mahut / Pierre-Hugues Herbert against the British Jo Salisbury / Neal Skupski to limit the damage for a possible qualification as best second .
In the first set, the Rinderknech breakwater held to 2-2 before giving in and allowing a surge to pass: Norrie had four games in a row to pocket the first set.
The French stopped the bleeding at the start of the second set by winning his throw-in before offering himself three break points.
But Norrie held her face-off and tied it at 1-1.
Based on a very good service, Rinderknech held in the second set until the tie break.
In the decisive game, he immediately hit the minibreak and led 4-1, but Norrie came back to 4-4 and then offered himself a first match point at 6 points to 5, well saved by the Frenchman on his serve. .
After saving two set points for Rinderknech, Norrie then got a second match point, on his serve this time, and did not fail to conclude after 2:06 of play.
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