Milos Raonic of Canada serves against Ryan Harrison of the United States (not pictured) on day three of the 2016 US Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Centre, Aug 31, 2016.
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Cilic is coming off his first Masters title, beating Andy Murray in the final at Cincinnati. “The U.S. Open is the most entertaining grand slam”.
Earlier, Cilic was barely troubled in his straight-sets win over Brazil’s Rogerio Dutra Silva, neither were French pair Jo-Wilfried Tsonga or Gael Monfils who registered similar victories over Guido Andreozzi and Gilles Muller respectively.
“The Big Four are getting older”, the 30-year-old Nadal said with a smile last week. He’s somebody that has been kind of trying to break through as the next generation.
More impressive was 26th seed Jack Sock, who cruised into the third round with a 90-minute 6-1 6-1 6-2 rout of German Mischa Zverev. I get injured, is true. “I was playing on adrenaline”, said 24-year-old Harrison who was as high as 43 in the world in 2012.
However, he showed just why he is the best player in the world at the ongoing US Open 2016, putting that behind him to beat Jerzy Janowicz 6-3, 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 in the first round.
Djokovic had to call for a medical time-out just five games into his 6-3 5-7 6-2 6-1 victory at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night.
Raonic received repeated visits from a trainer, who worked first on the Canadian’s wrist, then massaged his leg. Janowicz did that for stretches in the match with his power and penchant for hitting drop shots.
Uncle Toni’s take? “I hope every day we can play a little bit better”. That’s what I feel at the moment. Vesely wrote on Instagram afterward that the arm had been bothering him for a couple of days and he would see what the doctors in NY said about it.
The match, which finished 4-6 7-6 6-2, is officially the latest finish to a women’s singles match at the US Open having concluded at 01:49 local time.
“Tomorrow is a new day”.
Regarding his thoughts on the match result, he stated, ‘It was overall a good performance.
Nadal, meantime, has been bothered by the wrist since withdrawing before the third round at the French Open, a tournament he has won nine times.
“Not easy to go 2½ months out of competition, in the middle of the season, without hitting a forehand”, Nadal said.
Raonic, considered as a potential title dangerman in NY, hit 18 aces and 69 winners but committed 62 unforced errors. “Important thing in the history of this tournament”, he said.
“I need to recover the normal movement with the forehand”.
The world No.1 had to really fight against Jerzy Janowicz in order to make it into the second round as he showed evident signs of his recent injury problems. “But I am in the way”.
Asked about playing an opponent who defeated him in their only meeting, he ticked off all the reasons that might not be relevant: “Different surface, different circumstances, best-of-five”. He entered Wednesday with a 1-26 record for his career against top-10 opponents, including 0-8 at majors.
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“I mean, still the draw is 128”, Djokovic said. You still have the best players in the world.
