ATP Toronto – Milos Raonic: “Today was just first match of a new tournament, and it's never going to be pretty” - UBITENNIS

ATP Toronto – Milos Raonic: “Today was just first match of a new tournament, and it's never going to be pretty”

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TENNIS ATP TORONTO – 6th of August 2014. M. Raonic d. J. Sock 4-6, 7-6, 7-6. An interview with Milos Raonic

Q. Do you feel happy with the support? All the Canadians was screaming for you.

MILOS RAONIC: Yeah, it’s great. Now that there is Canadians doing well tournaments all around the world, there is small groups out all the time. But now to have this kind of big group support here and loud and constant, it’s amazing.

 

Q. Jack said a few minutes ago he felt there were some inappropriate comments directed toward him. Did you hear anything like that on the court?

MILOS RAONIC: From?

 

Q. From the crowd.

MILOS RAONIC: If there was anything, trust me, I have listened to much worse playing in other countries (laughter).

 

Q. Is there a special pressure to playing here at home when the crowd has such high expectations?

MILOS RAONIC: No. Today had nothing to do with that. Today was just first match of a new tournament, and it’s never going to be pretty. You’ve just gotta go and fight through, and I was able to do so.

 

Q. Can you talk a little bit about the struggle that you had in this match? What did you struggle with?

MILOS RAONIC: Just sort of struggled finding my grounding. At the end it’s really no different from that match I played last week. Okay, Wimbledon was different, but it’s no different from when I played him in Montreal, when I played him in Cincy last year.

Always played him early. The last three times I played him, he was always getting one match in before I was, so he was feeling more comfortable into the tournament, other than the Wimbledon time we both played one match before.

So it’s a matter of that. I can’t expect to play great tennis at the beginning. He’s a great player, and he’s going to make it tough on me.

 

Q. Where are you with the confidence level when it gets to a tiebreak? It just seems like you have no problems when it gets there.

MILOS RAONIC: There are problems (smiling), but it’s good that it seems that way.

But, no, I feel good in those situations, especially if things are not going throughout the set the way I would have liked. I’m not converting opportunities or giving away too many opportunities. I know that if I can get it to a tiebreak, I can sort of tip things in my favor.

 

Q. After a match like that, is it relief, is it happiness, joy, satisfaction? Like where are you when you win that first difficult match?

MILOS RAONIC: It’s relief, because obviously playing well last week, you know you cannot play that well. But maybe you hope you can play a little bit better.

But it’s a relief in that sense. It really is that way, I would say, for most matches throughout the year.

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