Canada native Milos Raonic reflects on both his professional and personal memories in Montreal, where he hopes to claim his first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title. Watch live matches at tennistv.com.
Montreal fans are among some of the most vocal and passionate on the ATP World Tour, which will create a rock concert atmosphere when home favourite Milos Raonic takes the court at the Coupe Rogers. The sixth seed will start his Montreal campaign against Adrian Mannarino or #NextGenATP Russian Daniil Medvedev. Raonic has enjoyed success on home soil before, finishing runner-up at this event in 2013 (l. Nadal) and reaching at least the quarter-finals in four of his past five attempts. Most importantly, he has moved past the injuries that plagued him at the beginning of the season and is able to play and practise the way he wants. “I’ve been healthy physically for a while now, which is nice,”...
Watch Wednesday highlights of the Citi Open 2017, featuring Milos Raonic, Alexander Zverev and Yuki Bhambri. Watch live tennis at tennistv.com. Photo: Mike Lawrence/Citi Open
Third seed Milos Raonic got his American hard-court campaign off to a flying start at the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., winning his opening match 7-6(2), 7-6(6) over Frenchman Nicolas Mahut. “There are a lot of things I need to be happy with,” said Raonic. “I lost a bit of sharpness and discipline in the second set, but I’m glad I was able to get through and keep going in this tournament. It’s good to be back, especially with that memory of having won here [in 2014].” Both men traded holds throughout the first set, but the Canadian raced through the tie-break to take the early advantage. Raonic saved a set point on his serve at 4-5 in the second...