hockeyville88 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Raonic beat fourth seed Malisse in the first round of the SAP Open Served up 20 aces! http://www.tsn.ca/tennis/story/?id=353015 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 10, 2011 Share Posted February 10, 2011 And in the second round Roanic beat James Blake in straight sets. He had 13 aces. Now off to the quarters. Just a little something on Blake, he was a one point a top five player. Pretty impressive Milos. He has 4 wins this year against players ranked inside the top 50. Seems like he might be the real deal one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Roanic heading to the finals. Won his quarter finals match and then Monfils had to withdraw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted February 12, 2011 Share Posted February 12, 2011 Fabulous. What a roll he's on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 (edited) Just a heads up, Roanic's match will be live on sportnet at 5:00 today. Edited February 14, 2011 by oh captain my captain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpinDrive Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 Just a heads up, Roanic's match will be live on sportnet at 5:000 today. 5:000??!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 5:000??!? Haha, fixed it. Should be an entertaining match. Hes playing Verdasco, the number 1 at this tourny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Raonic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Great win for Milos, the win moves him up into the top 60 now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luongoisdaman Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Huge props to Raonic. He's really made a huge move up the standings in the past couple of months: SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Milos Raonic became the first Canadian to win an ATP Tour title since 1995 by winning a hard-fought match Sunday over defending-champion Fernando Verdasco 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5) in the final of the SAP Open. The 20-year-old Raonic came through in his first career final, becoming the youngest winner on tour since Marin Cilic won in New Haven in 2008 at age 19. The last Canadian to win on tour was Greg Rusedski, who won in Seoul in April 1995. In a match that featured two tiebreakers, one break point and no breaks of serves, it was the smallest differences that decided the winner. Verdasco squandered four set points -- including two on his serve -- in the opening-set tiebreaker and then lost the only minibreak in the second tiebreaker when he hit a backhand into the net after a strong approach shot by Raonic to fall behind 4-2. Verdasco fought off two match points on his serve but once again had no answer for the big-serving Raonic, who won it with a 222 km/h serve that Verdasco hit into the net. Verdasco was upset because a fan yelled out just as he was about to hit the ball, but the point stood and Raonic got the final win in just his eighth career tournament. Raonic had 13 aces and 20 service winners in the match, hitting 240 km/h on one serve in the first set. Verdasco summed up the difference in the match succinctly: "His serve." Raonic has had a strong start to the season, going through qualifying and winning three matches in the Australian Open and making it to his first ATP World Tour final. He has shot up the rankings from 156th at the end of last year to 84th heading into this week. He is expected to be 59th after this victory. It's a far cry from where he was at a year ago at this time, playing Futures tournaments in Europe with a ranking of 360th in the world. "It's been quite a month and a half, but an amazing month and a half," he said. "I just hope to keep this going." In a scheduling quirk, he will have to do it against Verdasco, who gets a shot at a rematch in the first round of the tournament in Memphis on Wednesday. The draw for that tournament was Friday, before this matchup was even set. Verdasco lost just seven points in 12 service games, but it was the four dropped points on his serve in the two tiebreakers that proved to be the difference. He took a 6-2 lead in the first-set breaker with help from a double fault by Raonic. But Verdasco hit a forehand into the net to squander the first set point on his serve and then was unable to win it on Raonic's serve, cutting the lead to 6-5. Verdasco then hit a forehand wide to even up the set and Raonic won it with a backhand winner followed by a service winner. He hopped off the court in excitement. Raonic fought off the only break point of the match in the ninth game of the second set and once again took it in a tiebreaker, completing his perfect run through the week where he lost no sets and just one serve. The Bay Area has been kind to Canadian tennis players in recent years. Aleksandra Wozniak ended a 20-year title drought for Canadian women when she won at Stanford in 2008. And now Raonic ended the drought on the men's side in the same building where fellow Canadians Joe Thornton, Patrick Marleau, Dany Heatley and Dan Boyle star for the San Jose Sharks. Raonic was given a Sharks jersey and a bottle of maple syrup, along with the winners check for US$92,000. "It's nice to know a hockey arena isn't new to me," Raonic said. "I've been in a few of these. This feels like home." The run to the final here comes after a difficult start to the season for Verdasco, who broke a bone in his left ankle at an exhibition in Kooyong in January. The injury affected him greatly in his fourth-round loss at the Australian Open to Tomas Berdych and Verdasco had to have a cortisone shot in order to avoid surgery. As soon as he was ready to return to practice after the shot, he got a fever so he missed two full weeks of practice before coming to San Jose. But he was in fine form all week, not losing a set until the final and dropping just one service game all week. "For all the practise I did the past two weeks, I did pretty good this week," he said. "I'm happy to be in the final again." http://tsn.ca/tennis/story/?id=353805 He's #59 in the world now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 I saw the final, and he really does have an excellent running forehand. But it's all about his serve. I hope his body can handle it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
y0shi Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 SOOO AWESOME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donky Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 What's up with the Maple Syrup in San Jose? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 Wow great win for him How cool would it be if someday Rebecca Marino can be in the top 10 on the women's side and Raonic can be top 10 on the men's!? It would fuel a huge growth of tennis in Canada I'd think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 What's up with the Maple Syrup in San Jose? Some sort of bet with the... organizers? If I recall correctly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 And for the second time in as many matches, Roanic beat Verdasco, this time in Memphis. After the match Verdasco said "For me that's not a real match in tennis," Verdasco said. "I hope to play soon against him in clay court to show him what it is to play tennis, and play rallies, and run, and not only serve." Also, Rebecca Marino won her match and is now in the quarters at the same tournament. She is seeded number 6 and is the only seed left in the womens draw. http://www.wtatour.com/blog/20110216/rebecca-marinos-memphis-blog-wednesday_2257191_2295420 Marino is blogging for the tournament if anyone is interested, she's mentioned the Canucks the last two days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I remember this. The d-bag needs to be banned from future tennis tournaments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyville88 Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Wow Verdasco's a sore loser! Hope Raonic beats him on clay too I agree that Raonic's strength is his serves, and his volley game needs work but still, Verdasco has so much more experience than him. Surely if he was any good he'd have figured out how to deal with Raonic's heavy serves Love Marino's blogs Sounds like a proud Canadian which, after the Olympics, I just love to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 And for the second time in as many matches, Roanic beat Verdasco, this time in Memphis. After the match Verdasco said Also, Rebecca Marino won her match and is now in the quarters at the same tournament. She is seeded number 6 and is the only seed left in the womens draw. http://www.wtatour.com/blog/20110216/rebecca-marinos-memphis-blog-wednesday_2257191_2295420 Marino is blogging for the tournament if anyone is interested, she's mentioned the Canucks the last two days. Thanks a lot for posting that blog!!! +1 The second I read she is a Nucks fan.... Really hoping she and Roanic can rip it up down in Memphis! I am loving that we have some representation on the tour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oh captain my captain Posted February 18, 2011 Share Posted February 18, 2011 (edited) Milos on to the Quarters, Marino into the semis. Edited February 18, 2011 by oh captain my captain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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