Cameron Norrie is thru to the quarter-finals of the Argentina Open after beating wildcard Facundo Diaz Acosta in a nervy three-set battle.

The British No 1 required three hours to document a 4-6 7-5 7-6 win on the Buenos Aires Garden Tennis Membership and fought again valiantly within the third-set tiebreaker.

Each gamers struggled to land first serves within the opening set, with Norrie double-faulting on the primary level of his opening service sport earlier than managing to carry.

Acosta and Norrie serve 4 double faults between them within the first 4 video games, however the Argentine gained the higher hand, firing 5 consecutive aces to carry to like at 4-3.

He had two break factors within the subsequent sport, however Norrie held serve earlier than coming unstuck within the tenth sport to lose the primary set.

Within the second set, each gamers missed two break factors within the first two video games, and it seemed like Norrie was going through an early exit when he was damaged within the fourth sport.

He missed two probabilities to interrupt again immediately, however fought on the third likelihood earlier than holding the nerve to degree issues up.

Acosta broke Norrie in opposition to to go one sport away from profitable the match, however Norrie dug deep to win 4 video games in a row to drive a deciding third set.

Norrie struck first within the first set to go 2-1 up, earlier than Acosta broke again to take the decider to a tie-break.

Regardless of incomes the mini-break and going 4-1 up, Acosta couldn’t see out a memorable win over the Wimbledon semi-finalist, who recovered to e-book his place within the quarter-finals in opposition to Tomas Martin Etcheverry.