Pakistan, April 29 -- Cameron Norrie's run at the Madrid Open ended with a fourth-round loss against world number one Jannik Sinner.

Norrie had never played a competitive match against Sinner before but admitted ahead of the contest that the Italian "rips me up and smokes me" in practice.

Norrie battled hard to land blows on the top seed at the Caja Magica but was able to do so only occasionally as Sinner's unbeaten streak reached 20 matches with a 6-2 7-5 victory.

Sinner, who has never been beyond the quarter-finals in Madrid, said on Sky Sports: "We know each other quite well, we practised a lot in the last tournaments, so we both kind of knew what to expect. "I felt like I was serving quite well today in the important moments. This ...