Milos Raonic (Mark Kolbe/Getty Images)
MELBOURNE,  AUSTRALIA – January 23, 2011 – Following his third round win over World No. 10 Mikhail Youzhny  in Melbourne,  Tennis Canada held a media conference call on Sunday morning (Saturday evening in the United States) for Milos Raonic.
On his Australian Open experience: I felt  it was a big experience for me as a development standpoint.  I feel through the last three matches here in the main draw especially playing the three  out of five (sets) to beat the top guys, it’s more of challenge, but it’s something I’ve been dealing with really well and its something that has an impact on my game and my confidence and my belief. I feel like my level has come through and my game is coming together. I feel like I’m on my way to reaching my goals .
On his match against Mikhail Youzhny: As far as yesterday’s (Saturday’s) match goes .. it was a good day for me. I was able to deal with the diversity.  I know that he (Youzhny) plays really well on the return game so I know I wouldn’t  have as much ease holding my serve as I did with the first two matches. So it was a big thing for me to play from the baseline and be able to break him so this was a big success for me proving that I can do alot of damage even from the baseline. And other than that everything that has come with the win have been a lot of fun it’s been very exciting to go through this… it’s nice to have this experience early..it will be a big learning point for the rest of my career.
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