Canada’s Milos Raonic beats Dennis Novak in Wimbledon return

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Milos Raonic made a profitable return to Grand Slam tennis on Wednesday with a 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-1 win over Austria’s Dennis Novak in first-round motion at Wimbledon.

The hard-serving Canadian fired 28 aces in his first match at a tennis main since shedding to Novak Djokovic within the spherical of 16 of the 2021 Australian Open.

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Raonic overcame a pair of rain delays and wore down the Austrian qualifier earlier than clinching the match in two hours 38 minutes with a dominant fourth set.

The 32-year-old gained the match’s final 5 video games and moved on after delivering an ace on his second match level likelihood.

Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., returned to motion final month after lacking virtually two years with a wide range of accidents.

The previous world No. 3 and 2016 Wimbledon finalist entered this yr’s grass-court Grand Slam with an ATP Tour rating of 849th.

Raonic will subsequent face the winner of a match between American sixteenth seed Tommy Paul and Japanese qualifier Shintaro Mochizuki.

Wednesday promised to be a busy one for Canadians after rain performed havoc with the schedule at All England Membership, suspending or suspending a bunch of matches early this week.

Denis Shapovalov of Richmond Hill, Ont., continued his first-round match with Moldova’s Radu Albot, which was suspended Monday attributable to darkness.

Carol Zhao of Richmond Hill, Bianca Andreescu of Mississauga, Ont., and Vancouver’s Rebecca Marino had been scheduled to play first-round matches Wednesday.

Leylah Fernandez of Laval, Que., is about to tackle fifth seed Caroline Garcia of France in ladies’s second-round motion on Thursday.