Canada’s Raonic on to 2nd round, Pospisil wins first Grand Slam match of season
NEW YORK — Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic advanced to the second round of the U.S. Open with a straight sets win over Germany’s Dustin Brown on Monday.
Raonic, of Thornhill, Ont., fired 15 aces to Brown’s two and totalled 41 winners en route to the 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 victory.
Earlier Monday, Vancouver’s Vasek Pospisil earned his first Grand Slam victory of they year, downing Slovakia’s Jozef Kovalik in straight sets.
Raonic ran into some trouble in the first set. The 86th-ranked Brown broke him in the fifth game, then won his next service game to tie it at 3-3. The two exchanged service points until Raonic broke Brown for the 7-5 win.