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Raonic rolls ankle in Miami, retires from doubles match

Milos Raonic has reportedly rolled his ankle in his doubles match with Kevin Anderson versus Llodra and Zimonjic. This seems to be the first tweet on the subject:

Raonic retires with ankle injury

— Ricky Dimon (@RD_Tennistalk) March 25, 2012

Update 8:50PM Eastern:
Here's a report on the apparent circumstances of the retirement... unfortunately the match was not televised so us loyal fans were watching the score ticker and have to rely on what others saw.
If he called for the trainer during a changeover and then decided to retire, it's likely it's precautionary.... here's hoping.

Raonic looked fine. Suddenly at 2-1 changeover he calls for trainer. Retires on the spot. Let's hope its precautionary.

— Ricky Dimon (@RD_Tennistalk) March 25, 2012

Update 9:00PM Eastern:
Still nothing official regarding whether Milos will be able to play tomorrow. My guess is that it may be a few hours before we know publicly since he will probably want a full evaluation and discussion with his team, as usual, before making any decision about playing. Milos is normally very cautious, as we've seen. We will post here when more is known. On the bright side, Nestor/Mirnyi won their doubles match today.

Update 12:30AM Eastern:
Here's a few tweets from @OpenCourt (Stephanie Myles from Montréal Gazette). One regarding when the ankle roll occurred and the other one to showcase one of many reasons why we need Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal (or Milos Raonic??) at #1 !

Per Nenad Zimonjic, Raonic turned the ankle in practice before the match. Nice that he tried to play but doesn't sound great, does it?

— Stephanie Myles (@OpenCourt) March 25, 2012

Too busy with chest pumping to acknowledge Lahyani; really owes him +more for not docking him repeatedly for time twitpic.com/90wdiz

— Stephanie Myles (@OpenCourt) March 25, 2012

Here were the stats to the point of the retirement:

--wacb