Milos Raonic Snaps 8-Match Shedding Streak From Andy Murray | ATP Tour

Milos Raonic acquired his initially earn versus Andy Murray in additional than six years on Tuesday night, snapping an eight-match dropping streak towards the former World No. 1 with a 6-2, 6-2 victory in the 3rd spherical of the Western & Southern Open up.

In a battle of former Major 5 gamers, Raonic stormed via the 1st set before perform was suspended at 6:18 p.m. area time due to torrential rain. About an hour and a fifty percent afterwards, Raonic broke in the initial activity immediately after the resumption and hardly ever appeared back. He state-of-the-art to the quarter-finals just after 1 hour and 29 minutes.

In the to start with tournament because perform was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March, Raonic has picked up where he left off. The 29-calendar year-outdated achieved the semi-finals of his most current function at the Delray Beach front Open by VITACOST.com, and he also made the Australian Open up quarter-finals (l. to Djokovic).

The brief courts of Flushing Meadows are encouraging Raonic, who crushed 10 aces and received 88 for every cent of his 1st-serve points. The Earth No. 30 has received all 27 of his service video games this 7 days and saved just about every of the 5 break points he has confronted.

Murray, who underwent his 2nd hip surgery immediately after past year’s Australian Open, confirmed classic type on Monday to beat 2018 Nitto ATP Finals winner Alexander Zverev in three gruelling sets. But the major-serving Raonic retained the Brit from locating considerably rhythm, successful all eight of his company online games. 

Murray appeared sharp in the early rallies towards Zverev, mixing up paces and outmaneouvring the German. But his baseline sport was not as crisp versus Raonic. The wild card dumped an within-out forehand into the web at 2-2 in the initially set to give the former Globe No. 3 the early crack, a signal of points to arrive. Raonic retained Murray, one of the best returners of this era, from having good strikes on his returns by making use of his power and mixing up locations.

The crucial instant arrived at 3-2 in the next established, when Murray acquired his only two break factors. Raonic shrugged off the initially with a swinging forehand volley and the next with a small volley.

Raonic hadn’t beaten Murray since the 2014 BNP Paribas Open. The pair’s most current struggle came at the 2016 Nitto ATP Finals, where Murray saved a match stage to beat the Canadian 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-6(9), preserving his yr-finish No. 1 desires alive.

The Canadian will compete in the final 8 of the Western & Southern Open for the fifth time, future facing Filip Krajinovic. The Serbian, who defeated next seed Dominic Thiem in the next round, eradicated Hungarian qualifier Marton Fucsovics 6-2, 6-1.

Krajinovic has lost only 15 online games in a few matches to achieve his to start with ATP Masters 1000 quarter-closing due to the fact he produced the championship match of the 2017 Rolex Paris Masters.