“I want to apologise to Milos once again,” he said.
Even if blindfolded, the Serb might still have beaten Raonic, a player he had never lost to in nine previous matches. Although the 32nd seed Raonic has long been one of the tour’s most vexing servers, his main weapon was redundant against his opponent’s brilliant returning. The booming Raonic forehand with its extravagant wind-up had cut a swath through the draw, but Djokovic made it look decidedly foolish as he broke the Canadian in the fourth game and roared to a 4-1 lead. The 16-time Grand Slam champion paused only briefly to mount a pair of dodgy line challenges before serving out the set.
Djokovic later grew misty-eyed as he remembered NBA great Kobe Bryant, who was killed in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles on Sunday along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others on board.
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