Cameron Norrie needed just 50 minutes and 19 seconds to dismantle Bernard Tomic 6-1, 6-0 and reach the semi-finals of the Los Cabos Open in Mexico.

Tomic held serve in the opening game. Then nothing. Norrie won the next 12 games in a row, conceding only one game across the entire match. The scoreline — 6-1, 6-0 — tells the story plainly enough (BBC Sport).

The fifth seed's reward is a last-four meeting with defending champion Denis Shapovalov. The other semi-final pairs Hong Kong's Coleman Wong against France's Arthur Gea, both appearing in their first ATP Tour semi-final (BBC Sport).

Norrie's path to this stage has been a story of recovery. The British number two arrived in Los Cabos on a six-match losing streak, without a win since April. He said he had overtrained before a first-round exit at the French Open in May. His opening rounds in Mexico were hardly straightforward either — he came back from 3-0 down in the first set to beat Australia's James Duckworth in the second round, after seeing off Aleksandar Kovacevic in the first (BBC Sport; Sky Sports).

This is Norrie's first ATP Tour semi-final of the 2026 season, and it comes at a tournament he knows well — he is a former Los Cabos champion himself (ATP Tour; Sky Sports).

For Tomic, the match was a sobering end to an unexpected run. The 33-year-old reached the main draw as a lucky loser — a player who falls in qualifying but gets a spot when someone withdraws — and then beat Karen Khachanov to make his first ATP quarter-final in seven years (ATP Tour). That upset gave him a quarter-final against a seeded opponent in form. It lasted less than an hour.

What makes Norrie's performance stand out is the contrast with where he has been. A player who could not buy a win for three months produced arguably his cleanest performance of the year. The 12-game streak against Tomic is the kind of run that builds quietly — one hold of serve, then a break, then another — until the opponent looks up and there is no way back.

Norrie will need every bit of that sharpness against Shapovalov, who won this title last year and knows the conditions on Mexico's hard courts. The semi-final pits a former champion searching for his spark against the man who took his crown.