Milos Raonic is the first Canadian to ever make the men’s final at a grand slam tournament, but he finds himself sitting as a big underdog on the betting lines at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com for his Wimbledon clash with the favoured Andy Murray on Sunday.
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It will be Murray’s 11th Grand Slam final, breaking Fred Perry’s British record.
To open serve with tennis, and possibly a changing of the guard at the All-England club as Roger Federer was facing sixth seed Milos Roanic.
Persistence, positivity, and a Zen-like focus carried Raonic past Federer. “It was a great match”, reflected Raonic after the game.
Murray won the first two sets 6-4, 7-6 (3).
Raonic won the first set 6-3.
Raonic won the first set 6-3, and Federer took the second 7-6 (3).
“I’m aware I’ll have to play very well to win”. Murray has won six of those matches.
Second set and Roanic serving to stay in the frame, and he exchanges some heavy groundstrokes with Federer, and the Swiss is able to unload a backhand for a victor.
The Swiss also said he was encouraged by both his quarter-final and semi-final performances. Federer survived 8 aces from the big serving Canadian during he third set.
Heading into the match, the third-seeded Federer held a 9-2 edge in head-to-head meetings with Raonic.
Roger Federer had been carefully calibrating expectations before Wimbledon began.
Neither player was able to break the other’s serve in the set, but Federer took advantage of a double-fault in the tiebreaker to edge ahead. He reaches match point two games later with a 40-15 win in the seventh game. I obviously wanted to work with Ivan again to try to help me win these events.
“I’m glad I managed to get through today”. He needed a trainer again in the fourth game of the fifth set after his left knee gave way at the end of a rally, leaving him facedown on the grass. “Ideally, I don’t want to have him dictating all of the points because then I’ll be doing a lot of running”.
Tennis Canada also has a hand in shaping Canadian players – the organization has helped arrange for high-profile former tour players to coach promising young Canadians like Raonic and Bouchard. “I was always looking for a solution”. “I think he has all the tools to make it all the way”.
The pair split in March 2014, but it was with Lendl by his side that Murray won his two Grand Slam titles – the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013 – and Murray said the 56-year-old, a victor of eight Slams between 1984 and 1990, offers important experience of major events. The only Canadian to ever advance to a Grand Slam singles final before Raonic was Westmount’s Eugenie Bouchard, who lost the 2014 Wimbledon women’s final 6-3, 6-2 to the Czech Republic’s Petra Kvitova.
Twice this year, at the Australian Open in January and at the Queen’s Club last month, Andy Murray has fought back from losing positions to beat Milos Raonic.
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Berdych did well to recover in the second and matched the world number two in the early stages as it remained on serve at 3-3, but back-to-back breaks for Murray allowed the Scot to record another 6-3 score in the second.
