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18Sep/11Off

Raonic Wtihdraws from Davis Cup / Metz

Milos Raonic has withdrawn from Davis Cup and next week's tournament in Metz, France. (source)

Raonic admits that he may have tried to come back from injury too soon. While he says his hip is fine, he is certainly feeling the effects of his tough 4-set match with Amir Weintraub on Friday. No doubt the food poisoning has prevented Raonic from making a smooth and manageable return. This is what Raonic has to say about how he feels on court:

"It's like all these little problems now seem so big. I get a little sick, and it seems to make such a big difference. I'm feeling a little slow out there, and suddenly it feels like I can't think the game as I play."

Pulling out of a the Davis Cup match is bad enough, but Raonic is delaying his return to the ATP tour for at least another week. He was entered into the upcoming tournament in Metz, but now Raonic feels that he is not ready to play.

Peter Polansky is now playing instead of Raonic, taking on Dudi Sela who lost the opening singles rubber of the tiebreak to Vasek Pospisil. Polansky is currently down a set to Sela. Pospisil will take on Amir Weintraub in the final rubber. Team Canada only needs to win one match today in order to advance.

Go Canada, go!

-multi

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  1. If Milos had to sit out Davis Cup and cannot play Metz, he must be going to cancel the silly exhibition match against sampras, I hope. If he’s too sick to “work”, he shouldn’t play “fun” matches off the tour. Do others agree?

    • To be fair, that exhibition match with Sampras is almost two months from now. I expect Raonic is only delaying his return by a couple of extra weeks. As far as I know, he’s still scheduled to play some of the bigger ATP tournaments next month. He’s currently on the players list for Tokyo which starts October 3 — I hope that doesn’t change.

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