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Raonic and Tsonga cruise to victory in Day 1 of France .vs. Canada

Both matches in today's first round Davis Cup tie between France and Canada seemed fairly easy for their respective winners.  Tsonga was on form and was able to dominate Vasek Pospisil in front of a loud, proud Canadian crowd, and Raonic kept them fired up with an impressive victory against Julien Benneteau.

Milos' victory over Benneteau was very impressive.  He was focused and on his game for the entire match.  His first serves were on, his first serve points won were on, and he even finished up with a 2nd serve ace to put away the match.  Here's the stats from DavisCup.com:

from DavisCup.com

The doubles match, which is on tomorrow at 5pm Eastern Time on Sportsnet's regional channels again (but not online unfortunately), will decide who goes into the 3rd day with the lead.  Nestor and Pospisil will be taking on Benneteau and Llodra in the match.  If the veteran Nestor can lead the team to victory tomorrow, Canada will need to win at least one of both matches on Sunday (Raonic vs Tsonga followed by Pospisil vs Benneteau).  If the Canadians lose the doubles, we need both singles wins on Sunday.  Let's hope it doesn't come to that!

My gut feel tells me that we'll be watching a 5th and deciding rubber where Vasek Pospisil will have another chance to bring home the glory for Canada, and this time in front of his hometown crowd!  Hopefully he's successful again.

What do you think of Raonic's chances against Tsonga given how well he played today... leave a comment to let us know!

Go, Canada, Go!!!

--wacb