The TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open will play host to an all-Top 10 final clash on Sunday, as World No. 6 Milos Raonic duels with World No. 8 Marin Cilic. Raonic set their third FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting after dismissing Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-3 in just 66 minutes. The top-seeded Canadian will appear in his first clay-court final, having not dropped serve all week in Istanbul. He is bidding for his ninth ATP World Tour title and first since lifting the trophy to open the 2016 season in Brisbane. "I've come back from many injuries, so I know how to find my level," said Raonic, who is competing in his first tournament since withdrawing from Miami in March with a...
Top seed Milos Raonic showed he's finally injury-free at the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open on Wednesday, coming through a lengthy 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(3) tussle over an in-form Aljaz Bedene to reach the quarter-finals. Bedene, who finished runner-up last week in Budapest (l. Pouille), traded service holds throughout the first set with Raonic before taking the final three points in the tie-break. The Canadian broke Bedene twice in the second set to level the match, but neither player earned a break point in the decider. In the third-set tie-break, Raonic ripped a forehand winner to earn a 2/0 mini-break and held the momentum to prevail in two hours and 36 minutes. Raonic was playing his first match in nearly six...
Third seed Milos Raonic has announced his withdrawal due to a hamstring injury, ahead of his third-round match against Jared Donaldson at the Miami Open presented by Itau on Sunday. “It's related to the previous injury I sustained almost four weeks ago, if not a little bit more than four weeks ago, in Delray Beach,” Raonic told the assembled media in Miami. “It's the same muscle in the hamstring up high. It got progressively worse after my first round, after practising yesterday, and it seemed like it was not possible for me to compete today without putting myself at significant risk. “Right now the perspective is going to change a little bit. Obviously the goal through these tournaments being on...
Milos Raonic discusses the hamstring injury that forced him to pull out of Miami, ahead of his third-round meeting with Jared Donaldson. Watch live matches at tennistv.com.
