Surging Canadian Milos Raonic will make his debut in the top 50 of the world rankings next week thanks to a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 quarter-final win over American Robert Kendrick at the Memphis Championships on Friday. The 20-year-old Raonic, fresh off his first tournament win on Sunday at the San Jose Open, utilised his powerful serve and unleashed 20 aces to beat Kendrick in one hour and 53 minutes.
The tough part starts now for Andy Murray, the 22-year-old Scot who is four victories away from giving Britain its first men's singles champion at Wimbledon since the days when they played in long trousers.
Somdev Devvarman's giant-killing run ended with a straight-set loss to fourth seeded American Robert Kendrick in the final of the ATP Challenger Series' hard-court tournament in Nashville, US. The Indian Davis Cupper, who had beaten the second and third seeds in the run-up to the final, lost 3-6, 5-7.
Top seed James Blake breezed through his opening match as sixth-seeded Philipp Kohlschreiber made an early exit from the $416,000 Delray Beach International on Tuesday.
Andy Roddick celebrated his 24th birthday with a 6-3, 7-6, 6-3 victory over Kristian Pless.
"It was a weird start to my Centre Court. I hope the guy is all right," Kendrick said after the interruption to play.
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