After getting to the fourth round of the Aussie Open MILOS RAONIC came into this week on a roll and rolled all the way to the ATP (the SAP) final this week and with the winner of the San Jose Open last year FERNANDO VERDASCO across the net from him the first set with a set of holding serve as in the 12 games played before the tiebreaker all were won by the server. In the tie breaker they started by spliting the first 4 points and then FERNANDO VERDASCO got 4 straight points and had 3 shots of winning the first set but MILOS RAONIC rallied off 6 straight points to win the tiebreaker 8-6 and go up one set to none. The second set was like the first set as no server lost a serve in the second set either and 6 point of the tiebreaker was a huge point with MILOS RAONIC up 3-2 and they hit the ball back and forth to each quite a few times and FERNANDO VERDASCO finally hit it into the net to give MILOS RAONIC a 4-2 lead and finally had a match winning point on his serve and did not make a mistake except a fan calling out which helped him winning 7-5 in the tiebreaker to win in straight sets to become the first Canadian tennis player to win an ATP tournament since 1995. He also came into the Aussie Open outside of the top 100 (157th) and now will wake up 59th in the world tomorrow morning and has taken Canada by storm in a sport that Canadians do not pay to much attention to and now will have an interview on sportsnet tomorrow and he is 20 years old in his 10th ATP match.
He gets a sharks jersey and maple syrup along with the trophy and cheque go figure
Tom Mehegan
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