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With the ATP Tour planning to resume on Aug. 14 with the Citi Open in Washington, D.C., Raonic said the players who best utilize this unprecedented break in the schedule will have the best chance to post surprising results. Raonic, who has been heathy so far this season, has already gone through a couple training blocks with one more to come.
"It allowed me to focus on different things," he said."The first block we focused a lot on fitness. The second block was about getting back into tennis, but still with the main focus being on fitness. Now that we have an idea of when we're going to be back, it's going to be a major focus on the tennis and implementing a few specific things, things I want to do differently on court.
By studying video, Raonic has identified tactics opponents have used to unsettle him in the past. Known for his big serve, Raonic has spent a good chunk of time on his return. "I'm a big guy," the 6-foot-5 Canadian said."I have a big wingspan, but I felt like a lot of times I was going too much laterally instead of going on an angle forward to cut off the serves, especially the wide ones on the deuce side to the forehand and maybe on a kick serve on the ad side to the backhand or if I'm playing a lefty that slider wide.
While Raonic has made the quarterfinals or better five times at the Australian Open, including earlier this season, he has never cracked the final eight at the US Open, which is also played on hard courts. Due to injury, Raonic has been forced to sit out two of the last three trips to Flushing Meadows, which is at the end of the summer. Perhaps in this most unusual of years with a rejigged schedule he can finally breakthrough in the Big Apple."My intention was to be as ready as possible.
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