It was difficult to imagine him finding another gear, yet cracking it upwards he did with double breaks in the second set. Raonic battled back to salvage something in the third but squandered a break point in the second game and four shots at it in the eighth. That was the most defeating thing.”While Raonic’s net game is vastly improved, there was little evidence of that progress Wednesday. This year he probably didn’t do any of those.’’ (His fastest second serve was 111 m.p.h.) “Returning second serve, I just felt like I could somewhat get a read on his serve maybe.’’Then he grinned.

Source: thestar July 13, 2017 00:56 UTC