{"id":249794,"date":"2025-07-09T04:17:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249794\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T04:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T04:17:16","slug":"cameron-norrie-called-out-by-john-mcenroe-over-weird-behaviour-during-defeat-to-carlos-alcaraz-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/249794\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie called out by John McEnroe over ‘weird behaviour’ during defeat to Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cameron Norrie was keen to show off his Duolingo skills during his defeat to Carlos Alcaraz, but John McEnroe was not a fan.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The British star’s quarter-final clash against two-time Wimbledon<\/a> champ Alcaraz<\/a> did not get off to the greatest of starts.<\/p>\n

\"Norrie<\/a><\/p>\n

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Norrie was up against it from the get-go against the reigning Wimbledon championCredit: AFP via Getty<\/p>\n

Alcaraz, who eased to a straight-sets victory over the 29-year-old, was in cruise control throughout the opening set as he stormed to a 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard was once again dominant early in the second set and went ahead 3-1.<\/p>\n

Knowing that there was a serious risk of Alcaraz running away with the contest, Norrie tried to inject some energy into the crowd and himself when his rival fired a shot beyond the baseline.<\/p>\n

Amid the applause, Norrie<\/a> bellowed out ‘vamos’, which translates to ‘let’s go’ in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Norrie’s shout was met by surprise from McEnroe on commentary duties.<\/p>\n

“Was that Norrie saying ‘vamos?'” McEnroe said.<\/p>\n

He added: “It’s weird for a guy that was born in South Africa, grew up in New Zealand and is a Brit, that he’s saying vamos.”<\/p>\n

Fans on social media shared a similar stance to McEnroe.<\/p>\n

One X user wrote: “Norrie why are you saying vamos? You’re not Spanish!”<\/p>\n

Another said: “Alcaraz is too good, Norrie saying vamos, seriously!?”<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Brit’s time at SW19 for this year’s tournament came to an endCredit: AFP via Getty<\/p>\n

A third added: “John McEnroe calling out Norrie for shouting vamos and rightly so.”<\/p>\n

However, Norrie revealed in his post-match press conference the reason he yells out vamos is because his coach, Facundo Lugones, is from Argentina.<\/p>\n

Norrie also claimed he had been saying vamos throughout the entire tournament.<\/p>\n

It ultimately mattered for nought though, as Alcaraz cruised to a 6-2, 6-3, 6-3 victory.<\/p>\n

Although Alcaraz rarely needed to go through the gears on Centre Court, he was still full of praise for Norrie.<\/p>\n

“I am really happy. To be able to play another semi-final here at Wimbledon is really special,” Alcaraz said.<\/p>\n

\"Alcaraz<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alcaraz has booked a spot in the Wimbledon semi-finals against Taylor FritzCredit: AFP via Getty<\/p>\n

“I want to go as far as I can and I am really happy with the level I played today against a really difficult player like Cam.<\/p>\n

“He is an amazing guy. No one works harder than him and it is nice to see him fighting for great things.”<\/p>\n

Although Alcaraz evidently let Norrie’s brief flirtation with the Spanish language slide, another Spaniard on tour was less receptive.<\/a><\/p>\n

Last November, Norrie fought from a set and break down to beat Roberto Carballes Baena in Metz, but things got heated in the aftermath during the post-match handshake.<\/p>\n

The Spaniard appeared annoyed with Norrie for repeatedly saying ‘vamos’ to motivate himself throughout the comeback.<\/p>\n

He said to his rival: \u201cYou\u2019re saying \u2018come on\u2019 all the time, [while] looking in my face. You didn\u2019t need to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nick Kyrgios says Carlos Alcaraz knows he’s right deep down after ‘girls and parties’ retort<\/p>\n

An unmoved Norrie replied: \u201cA couple of \u2018vamos\u2019 and you get p***** off?\u201d<\/p>\n

Carballes Baena fired back: \u201cA couple of \u2018vamos\u2019? No!<\/p>\n

“You said \u2018vamos\u2019, looking in my face. You don\u2019t need to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norrie later explained his side of the story during his on-court and claimed he said ‘vamos’ to ‘get myself fired up’.<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t play much worse than I was, and I was trying to get fired up, and he was apparently not happy with me saying ‘vamos’ a couple times,” Norrie said.<\/p>\n

“But I stopped doing it, and I started playing better.<\/p>\n

“Then I was happy with the way I turned it around, and nice to get a win after an injury.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cameron Norrie was keen to show off his Duolingo skills during his defeat to Carlos Alcaraz, but John…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[19369,6359,96449,96452,13793,2998,96450,8635,8639,36340,79,1068,5838,16,15,8642,96451,5068],"class_list":{"0":"post-249794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-cameron-norrie","9":"tag-carlos-alcaraz","10":"tag-final-score","11":"tag-is-cameron-norrie-spanish","12":"tag-john-mcenroe","13":"tag-latest","14":"tag-quarter-final","15":"tag-reaction","16":"tag-result","17":"tag-social-media-reaction","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-tennis","20":"tag-tennis-news","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-updates","24":"tag-vamos","25":"tag-wimbledon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114821349292261667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}