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Milos Raonic and Robin Haase are runners-up for the doubles title in Halle, Germany

Rohan Bopanna & Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi defeat Milos Raonic & Robin Haase 7-6(8), 3-6, 11-9 in doubles final of Gerry Weber Open

The Match

From the scoreline, 7-6(8), 3-6, 11-9, we can see that this match was very close indeed, but in the end, the Pakistani-Indian duo came out on top in the 3rd "set".  More here.  The stats:

from ATPWorldTour.com

Raonic in doubles in 2011

Until the Gerry Weber Open, Milos' fortunes on the doubles courts were not great this year, with his only doubles victory coming in the Davis Cup match with Vasek Pospisil against the Mexican team of Luis Diaz-Barriga & Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela.  Other than this, he's lost in the first round of each ATP tournament he's played in doubles.

He lost in the first round of Indian Wells after the unfortunate luck of drawing the Bryans in the first round with Spanish partner Feliciano Lopez 4-6, 5-7.  His doubles attempts in Monte Carlo and Barcelona with partner Nico Almagro ended similarly, with a 3-6, 2-6 loss to Gasquet & Ljubicic and a 2-6, 4-6 loss to Dolgopolov & Malisse respecitively.

Milos in doubles - pre-2011

The last tournament that Raonic played in doubles before his "meteoric rise" in 2011 was the Masters 1000 event in Toronto, where he completed what must be his most famous and favorite doubles victory with Canadian partner Vasek Pospisil in the first round, see video below:

Raonic and Pospisil went on to lose their second round match against Melzer (AUT) and Petzschner (GER).

Before this victory versus Nadal and Djokovic at the Rogers Cup in 2010, Milos had not played in any ATP Tour-level doubles matches, but he did have some success in doubles at Davis Cup (vs. Columbia with Canadian doubles partner Daniel Nestor) and at various challengers and futures events (finalist at Canada F3 in March 2010, and winner in Thailand F1 with Austrian partner Nikolaus Moser).  See full doubles history here.

- WACB