Milos Raonic

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Raonic Looks To Thrive In Familiar Settings

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Canadian seeks first ATP World Tour Masters 1000 title in Montreal
Montreal fans are among some of the most vocal and passionate on the ATP World Tour, which will create a rock concert atmosphere when home favourite Milos Raonic takes the court at the Coupe Rogers.
The sixth seed will start his Montreal campaign against Adrian Mannarino or #NextGenATP Russian Daniil Medvedev. Raonic has enjoyed success on home soil before, finishing runner-up at this event in 2013 (l. Nadal) and reaching at least the quarter-finals in four of his past five attempts. Most importantly, he has moved past the injuries that plagued him at the beginning of the season and is able to play and practise the way he wants.
“I’ve been healthy physically for a while now, which is nice,” said Raonic. “I’ve also been a lot better over the past few weeks in some of the areas that aren’t necessarily the core of my game, so hopefully I can continue to build on that.
“I haven’t had the freedom of just thinking about tennis at times. I’ve been thinking about a lot of other things in the sense of staying healthy and other areas around my game,” he added. “The beauty of this most recent period is that I’ve been able to get my mind back strictly on tennis.”

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[Del Fed]

Milos Raonic reveals wrist issues after his loss to Mannarino

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]Milos Raonic never did really well at the Rogers Cup in his home favourite tournament apart the final lost to Rafael Nadal in 2013. The Canadian player lost to Adrian Mannarino by 6-4 6-4 in the second round and he was influenced by a wrist injury that may jeopardize his appearance in Cincinnati.

'It was hard for me to really put any pace on a backhand', the World No. 10 admitted. 'I tried using the slice a little bit more. But it didn't really come together as well as I would have hoped. 'I wasn't sharp enough with what I needed to be sharp with', added Raonic.

'On the serve, I guess I just let too many other things that were going on get to me, and I didn't necessarily ever get around to really focusing on it completely and making him uncomfortable. I kept sort of worrying about other things when I should have just been in those moments, focused on what I need to do to serve well the next point.' Further speaking about the injury, Raonic said: 'Nothing serious in the sense of something that can get worse, but it's sort of you bite your tongue.

I've tried to sort of calm it down, but it can just be quite painful.'

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[Damian]

Raonic out of US Open

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The 26-year-old’s luck ran out this time, as the left wrist issue that hampered him in Montreal and forced him to miss the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati last week will also keep him out of the US Open.

“I have tried everything in my power to rehabilitate this injury in time for the US Open in order to play an event that is so truly special to me. However, the pain is too great and, in consultation with my doctors, I am left with no option but to withdraw from the event,” Raonic announced on Instagram.
Raonic also said that he underwent a procedure Tuesday to remove portions of the bone that have been causing the discomfort.

He said he has “too much respect for the US Open and my fellow competitors to take a spot in the draw when I know I cannot give full effort due to this injury.”

Raonic said he’s already back in the gym starting rehab, and hopes to be back on court in a few weeks.

“I look forward to rejoining the tour healthier and stronger and finishing the 2017 season in proper form,” he wrote.

OTHER BIG EVENTS ON TAP

Raonic made no mention in his note about two other major upcoming events on his schedule.

Canada plays Indian in a crucial World Group playoff tie in just over three weeks in Edmonton, Alberta.

And right after that, Raonic is due to lead Team “rest of the world” against Team Europe in the inaugural Laver Cup in Prague.

Raonic’s absence just adds to the top-10 woes at this event with Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka and Kei Nishikori also out (all of them for the season).

His absence will give a lucky loser a spot in the draw. And it also will move Juan Martin del Potro up to the No. 24 seed. And that means he can avoid the top eight seeds in a potential third-round match.

It also means that Robin Haase of the Netherlands squeezes into a seeded spot in the draw.

Raonic had been scheduled to be the No. 8 seed. Now, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (who hasn’t done much of late) will get that seed.

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Kanadyjczyk wycofał się z powodu kontuzji nadgarstka, jednak ma nadzieję wrócić do gry w tym sezonie.

[Damian]

[Del Fed]

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Raonic "rozszedł się" z Piattim.

[Barty]

2017 w liczbach:

Ranking: 24
Bilans meczów: 29-12
Tytuły: 0
Finały: 2
Zarobki: $1,405,103

[Lleyton]

Raonic in top health for a new year

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Former world No.3 Milos Raonic is in great shape ahead of Australian Open 2018. Raonic, who slipped 19 places to world No.24 due to a luckless run of injuries all year, is finally pain-free.

“I’m 100 per cent healthy but only 80 per cent through my off-season,” the Canadian told ausopen.com on Thursday during a combined workout at Melbourne Park with fellow New Balance ambassador and Australian cricket captain Steve Smith. “I would have liked to have a bit more training in the off-season but my injuries kept me delayed. I feel better than last year because I’ve had more time to prepare. Last year the season finished late for me so time was limited and everything ended up being a rush. Now I’ve had time to take off and recover.”

With two Australian Open quarterfinals, one semifinal and a Brisbane International title in the past three years, Raonic has enjoyed the Australian summer, but with a recurring abductor injury hampering his 2016 and 2017 campaigns, it hasn’t been without heartbreak.

“It’s been my most consistent Slam and the one I felt like I’ve had the best opportunities. I’ve been unfortunate the last two years finishing with an injury but I’ve always felt good about the way I’ve played,” Raonic said. In a tennis season where nobody from last year’s top five - Djokovic, Murray, Nishikori, Wawrinka and Raonic – finished the year healthy, next month’s Australian Open has tennis fans across the world excited for what promises to be one of the most competitive tournaments in some time.
I feel better than last year because I’ve had more time to prepare.
Australian Open semifinalist Milos Raonic

According to Raonic, it’s almost impossible to predict who’s going to win. “Novak’s played well here; he’s had a lot of time to train and recover. He could do the thing that Roger was able to do [this year],” he said. “Roger’s been playing great. It’s hard to know, it’s really hard to know. If you look at it from how things ended last year it’s Roger and Rafa, but it’s hard to discount guys when they’ve had time to train – I think Roger proved a lot of people wrong in that sense.”

The 2016 Wimbledon finalist also commented on the recently announced Grand Slam rule changes, including the plan to reduce the number of seeded players in main-draw singles from 32 seeds to 16. “You’re going to gain somewhere and you’ll also lose somewhere,” he said. “It’s going to create some more enticing matches in the first round but it will allow for some draws to open up and get those guaranteed bigger matches in the third round.
“You might have to wait until the fourth round or if a seed falls out early, one player might have a [bigger] opening for the quarterfinals. There’s a give and take -- but I think it’s positive.”

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[Damian]

Milos Raonić jest już w Melbourne. Trenował z numerem jeden australijskiego krykieta

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Milos Raonić wycofał się z pokazówki w Abu Zabi i jeszcze przed Świętami Bożego Narodzenia zdecydował się przylecieć do Australii. Kanadyjczyk chce jak najlepiej przygotować się do wielkoszlemowego turnieju w Melbourne.

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Getty Images / Daniel Pockett / Na zdjęciu: Milos Raonić (z lewej) i Steve Smith (z prawej)

Rafael Nadal wycofał się z pokazowego turnieju w Abu Zabi
- Trochę czasu minęło, kiedy miałem możliwość grania na zawodowych kortach. Zdecydowałem się przylecieć szybciej, aby skorzystać z tutejszych obiektów i dzięki temu jak najlepiej przygotować się do Australian Open. Zawsze grałem dobrze w Australii, dlatego cieszę się z powrotu tutaj - powiedział Milos Raonić.
W 2017 roku Kanadyjczyk leczył urazy łydki oraz nadgarstka i dlatego stracił znaczną część sezonu. Aktualnie jest 24. singlistą świata. - Kończący się rok nie był dla mnie taki, jak tego chciałem. Zmagałem się z różnymi problemami, ale ostatnio miałem czas, aby je przezwyciężyć. Teraz mogę już naprawdę skupić się na tenisie. Powoli zbliżam się do tego, by być w pełni sił - dodał były trzeci singlista świata.

Raonić powita 2018 rok w Brisbane, gdzie triumfował w 2016 roku. Tymczasem trenuje na obiektach Melbourne Park, na których jest rozgrywany Australian Open. Firma New Balance, która ubiera zawodnika, zorganizowała mu spotkanie z najlepszym obecnie australijskim krykiecistą, Steve'em Smithem. Jak się okazało, kapitan Kangurów (jego drużyna pokonała właśnie Anglię w ramach prestiżowego cyklu meczów zwanych The Ashes, czyli Popioły) ma spore umiejętności tenisowe, gdyż jako młody chłopak trenował tę dyscyplinę sportu.

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[Damian]

Milos Raonić wyjawił swoje noworoczne postanowienia

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Milos Raonić uważa, że wykonał dobrą pracę i ma nadzieję, że w sezonie 2018 wróci do ścisłej czołówki. Na razie Kanadyjczyk jest jednak świadomy, że nie może mieć wobec siebie zbyt dużych oczekiwań.


Sparing z Roberto Bautistą nie napawa optymizmem, ale Andy Murray zadecydował, że wyruszy w podróż do Brisbane
Milos Raonić ma za sobą bardzo nieudany rok. Kanadyjczyk, który rozpoczynał sezon 2017 na trzecim miejscu w rankingu ATP, miał wiele problemów zdrowotnych i w efekcie spadł na 24. lokatę w światowej klasyfikacji. W nadchodzących rozgrywkach chce wrócić do ścisłej czołówki.
- Od długiego czasu nie grałem w tenisa - mówił Raonić w Brisbane, gdzie zainauguruje sezon 2018. - Ostatnie sześć miesięcy to był dla mnie trudny okres, ale teraz sprawy mają się lepiej i po pracy, jaką wykonałem, jestem pozytywnie nastawiony.


Kanadyjczyk wskazał elementy, na których najbardziej najbardziej się koncentruje w perspektywie 2018 roku. - Oczekiwania wobec siebie i sprawność fizyczna - wymienił, dodając: - Moje noworoczne postanowienia są takie, aby dobrze się odżywiać i dbać o swoje ciało. Chcę być mniej krytyczny, a bardziej przyjazny wobec siebie.

Raonić czwarty raz z rzędu nowy sezon zainauguruje występem w Brisbane. Najlepszy wynik w tym turnieju osiągnął przed dwoma laty, gdy zdobył tytuł, w finale pokonując Rogera Federera. W poprzedniej edycji odpadł w półfinale, przegrywając z późniejszym triumfatorem Grigorem Dimitrowem.

27-latek w stolicy stanu Queensland przebywa od kilku dni. Był gwiazdą tradycyjnie odbywającego się spotkania z dziećmi. - To wspaniałe, że dzieciaki wspierają ten turniej. Gdy byłem młodszy, chciałem być jak najbliżej ludzi, których podziwiałem - wspominał.

Turniej rangi rangi ATP World Tour 250 w Brisbane zostanie rozegrany w pierwszym tygodniu 2018 roku na kortach twardych. Na starcie imprezy pojawią się także m.in. Andy Murray, Nick Kyrgios czy broniący tytułu Dimitrow.

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[Lleyton]

Raonic Seeks The Right Formula In Return From Injury

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Former champion kicks off his 2018 campaign in Brisbane

Milos Raonic is the first to admit that 2017 did not go as planned.

The injury-plagued Canadian shut down his season prematurely, after suffering a calf ailment in Tokyo in early October. Having also endured a partially torn hamstring and wrist surgery, Raonic was forced to withdraw from five events during the year.

Now fully healthy and with a new team surrounding him, the 27-year-old is taking it one match at a time as the calendar flips to 2018. Raonic, who saw his position in the ATP Rankings fall to No. 24, has pressed the refresh button on his career as he targets a healthy campaign. His first stop: the Brisbane International presented by Suncorp.

"I've also had some time to really figure things out and hopefully find some answers to the big question of how to stay healthy," Raonic told the assembled media in Brisbane. "I feel good. I feel like I'm taking all the right steps forward. Obviously, time can only tell if I have come up with the right approaches, the right methods and the things that are going work for me.

"I won't know that for quite a long period of time, but I have confidence in the things I'm doing and the approach I'm taking. And the things I'm hoping to do differently that can give me that possibility to be out on court a lot more than I have been over the last 18 or so months.

"It's just about being there, healthy, to play as many matches and tournaments as possible as close to 100 per cent, where I'm not really being hindered by anything serious. Obviously, it's impossible to play tennis without any kind of nagging discomfort, but there's a difference between an injury and a discomfort."

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Raonic, who reached a pair of finals on the ATP World Tour in 2017 - on the hard courts of Delray Beach and clay of Istanbul - is looking to return to his top form that saw him ascend to a career-high No. 3 in 2016.

The Canadian will turn to new coach Javier Piles and a revamped fitness team to guide him into the new season. Piles, who worked with David Ferrer for more than 15 years, was hired by Raonic in October. The Canadian recently parted ways with longtime coach Riccardo Piatti.

"For now I'm just with Javier Piles at the moment, and he's helped me out on the coaching front," Raonic added. "Pretty much everybody on my team is new at this moment. Avi is managing the fitness side of things and then I'm using different guys here and there for physios. That's still sort of up in the air.

"I think it's more that to lower the intensity of the days that I'm training and to actually take less days off. So I'm doing more things throughout the year where my body is not really having many days where it completely stops. So it's continuously moving and doing something that could be productive to progress."

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Right now, Raonic is hoping to play as many matches as possible in the early stages of the season, as he looks to build his stamina and rediscover his confidence. Raonic returns to Brisbane as the fourth seed, having lifted the trophy in 2016. He opens against American Steve Johnson or Aussie teen Alex de Minaur, with second seed Andy Murray looming in his half of the draw.

"Playing lots of matches means you're winning and staying healthy. I think those are really the big questions I'm trying to answer and see and take from, because I don't have a lot of data to survey from the last few months on the progress and the things I've been trying to do.

"I think if you win a lot of matches, you get closer. I think at this moment I'm just taking one step at a time and trying to deal with it as each challenge comes."

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Raczej chodziło o przydomek na MTF "chairman Rao". Ale to też chyba ujdzie.

[Lucas]

[Damian]

[arti]

Raonic Holds Alligator, Lives Dangerously In Delray Beach

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It cannot have been what the two dozen experts Milos Raonic consulted in the off-season recommended he do this year: hold a baby alligator.

But there Raonic was, on Sunday, two days before his first match at the Delray Beach Open, clenching his fists tighter and tighter around Smiley, the five-pound alligator that squirmed and urinated while the Canadian tried to tame him.

“Whoa, buddy,” Raonic said.

“So you can feel the strength of him,” said “Gator Tim” Schwartzman, Raonic's guide at the Sawgrass Recreation Park in Weston, Florida, U.S.A.

“Whoa, buddy. Whoa, buddy. Whoa, buddy, buddy, buddy, buddy! Whoaaa, buddy!” Raonic said as he held the 2-year-old alligator, which did not have tape over his mouth and weighs approximately five pounds.

Raonic

Raonic, 6'5” and 216 pounds, inhaled deeply.

“You're good, you're good,” Schwartzman told him.

“I got to hold him pretty hard,” Raonic said.

“Yeah, they're very powerful animals. People don't realise the amount of strength that they're able to produce,” Schwartzman said.

Eventually, Raonic handed back the alligator. The Canadian was uninjured, his hands and powerful right arm fully intact and ready to move on to the park's other attractions. It's something Raonic hopes happens again and again in 2018 – with wild reptiles and on the tennis court.

The 27-year-old spent most of 2017 on the injured list. Name the malady, and Raonic likely had it – or something close to it – last season. An injury to his right leg forced him to miss three tournaments (Acapulco, Indian Wells and Monte-Carlo) and withdraw from two others, including the Delray Beach Open final against Jack Sock. Pain in his left wrist made him skip two other tournaments (Cincinnati and US Open), and he ended his season in Tokyo with a muscle tear to his right calf.

Raonic, understandably, described the season in three unpleasant words: “Tough, difficult and disappointing.

“First I wasn't able to play most of the season, or if I was playing I was struggling with a lot of different and various injuries,” he told ATPWorldTour.com.

Raonic's ATP Ranking was No. 3 at the end of 2016. He is now No. 32, the ninth seed in Delray Beach after fifth seed Nick Kyrgios withdrew (right elbow).

But the frustrating season sent Raonic on a expedition of sorts. His mission: To finally discover the best way to take care of his 6'5” frame that, when healthy, can produce some of the best tennis in the world.

And he took the task seriously. Raonic talked with about two dozen people – coaches, trainers and physios from tennis but also from other sports, including hockey, basketball and soccer. He also spoke with some general fitness experts.

“It's just always trying to figure out something that's going to work. Obviously many things that I was trying weren't giving me the results in terms of health and longevity that I was hoping for, especially tournament after tournament throughout an entire season. So you do the research. You speak with a lot of different people, people have their various opinions on what to do,” Raonic said.

For now, he has adopted a stay-active approach to training. He plans to take fewer days off in which he's doing no physical fitness. For instance, Raonic used to take about 10 days off after the season finished. But now he plans to take no more than three consecutive days off, ever.

“So the body never gets out of rhythm,” he said.

That, however, won't necessarily mean more tennis. Instead of more pounding on the court, Raonic might play other sports, including basketball and soccer, more often.

“Just really trying to... always keep my body aware and alert,” he said. “You try to give everything a shot for a longer period of time and now I've tried to take on this approach, hopefully [I'll] get the results and be able to be on court much more.”

If it works, it will have been a successful expedition for Raonic, who isn't chasing gold or other riches, but rather, a healthy 11 months on the ATP World Tour.

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[Damian]

Raonic Earns First Victory Of 2018

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Isner avenges New York loss against Albot
When Milos Raonic arrived in Delray Beach last year, the Canadian was No. 4 in the ATP Rankings. But injury struggles kept the right-hander off the court for chunks of time throughout 2017.

The World No. 32 will hope that beating Taro Daniel 6-1, 7-5 on Tuesday afternoon at the Delray Beach Open for his first victory of the season will be a sign of good things to come. It is his second tour-level win in six months, as Raonic pursues a ninth ATP World Tour title.

"It's a good thing I was able to win today and it gives me a lot of things that I believe I can do better tomorrow," Raonic said. "So just got to keep building day-by-day and working my way into it and just try to get in as many wins as possible. That's the most important thing."

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Last year in Delray Beach, Raonic was forced to withdraw before his championship match against Jack Sock due to a right-leg injury. He will look to improve upon a first-round performance in which he made just 39 per cent of first serves and faced two set points in the second set. The Canadian will next face home favourite Steve Johnson, who had lost eight of his past nine matches before ousting Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-3, 6-4 in 71 minutes.

"Obviously having not played a lot of matches I was going in and out a little bit with my focus and my intensity," Raonic said. "I've got to be a bit more consistent and disciplined with that."

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Raonic has won all three of his FedEx ATP Head2Head meetings against Johnson, but each match has included at least one tie-break. The pair has not played since 2014 Basel, where Raonic lost in the quarter-finals.

Sixth seed John Isner also got back on track in Delray Beach, avenging his loss against Moldovan Radu Albot at last week’s inaugural New York Open with a tough 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 triumph on Tuesday afternoon. It was the World No. 18’s first win of the season (1-4).

The American will next face Peter Gojowczyk, who prevailed in three sets against Lukas Lacko. It will be Isner's first FedEx ATP Head2Head meeting against the 2017 Metz champion.

American Reilly Opelka, a wild card, pulled off the upset of the day against recent Brisbane International presented by Suncorp finalist Ryan Harrison 7-6(5), 7-6(6). The #NextGenATP contender will take on another compatriot in the second round — Sock.

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