Raonic defeats last year's finalist to advance to the round of 16 at the Gerry Weber open

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     The young Canadian smashed 19 aces to defeat German Philipp Petzschner.  The match was full of big first serves, many of which exceed 200km/hour.  It wasn’t however an easy or straightforward match.  There was just the one break point in the entire match which came right at the end of the first set, and was taken by Raonic as Petzschner miss-hit and the ball went long allowing the 21 year old to take the first set 7-5. 

     Raonic proved that despite his young age he deserves a lace high up in the rankings as his returning talent shone through to allow him to dominate the second set tie-break and therefore take the match.

     After defeating last year’s finalist, surely his next match up against qualifier Ze Zhang will be a walk in the park.  If our Canadian star wins that match up, he will face Gerry Weber Open legend Roger Federer, and what a match that would be…