{"id":439327,"date":"2023-07-06T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.7sport.net\/en\/news-single\/raonic-defeats-novak-in-the-1st-round-at-wimbledon\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T09:51:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T13:51:18","slug":"raonic-defeats-novak-in-the-1st-round-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/raonic-defeats-novak-in-the-1st-round-at-wimbledon\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic defeats Novak in the 1st round at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic, world number 849, won against world number 159, Dennis Novak, 3-1 sets and clinched the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round on the Grand Slam on grass in London.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">He&#8217;s back!  <\/p>\n<p>  Milos Raonic defeats   Dennis Novak to advance at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fDfiQfOJqr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fDfiQfOJqr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1676631178764320778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Novak won the 1<sup>st<\/sup> set after a tiebreak 7-6 (5), but Raonic was the better player on the court after that.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian won 6-4 in the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> set after converting one break and didn\u2019t allow a single chance for the Austrian to break his serve.<\/p>\n<p>Milos also didn\u2019t allow a break chance in the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> set, but he failed to convert 3, and the set reached a tiebreak. That time, the Canadian tennis player won 7-6 (5) and took the lead in the match.<\/p>\n<p>Raonic won the 4<sup>th<\/sup> set for only 23 minutes, 6-1, after 2 breaks to close the bout and win his 1<sup>st<\/sup> match at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The only clash between Milos and Dennis was again in Wimbledon in 2018, and the Canadian won with the same result \u2013 3:1 sets.<\/p>\n<p>Milos will face Mochizuki or Paul in the next round of the tournament.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1 &#8211; Milos Raonic has registered his first win at Wimbledon since beating Reilly Opelka in the round of 32 in 2019. It is also the Canadian&#8217;s first Grand Slam win since Australian Open 2021 when he beat Marton Fucsovics in the round of 32. Comeback. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Wimbledon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Wimbledon<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rG5Y5gT4W8\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rG5Y5gT4W8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OptaAce (@OptaAce) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OptaAce\/status\/1676625628970500097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic, world number 849, won against world number 159, Dennis Novak, 3-1 sets and clinched the 2nd round on the Grand Slam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":439328,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19987,18069,17072],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"video":[],"announce":"The Canadian advanced to the 2nd round."},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/439327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439327"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=439327"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=439327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}