MELBOURNE RESULTS. Milos Raonic tops Cilic in the 4th round

Milos Raonic conquers Marin Cilic 6-4 6-3 7-5 in the 4^th round in Melbourne on Sunday. Raonic will fight against Novak Djokovic in the quarter.

Score, report, and key facts

1^st set.

There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Milos conquered in the 10^th game (6-4).

2^nd set.

Raonic had a strong start of this set after breaking Cilic in the 2^nd game (2-0) before consolidating his break and lead 3-0. That was decisive for Milos to win the set (6-3) since there were no other breaks.

3^rd set.

There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Milos conquered in the 11^th game (6-5) before winning the set (7-5).

Milos missed the chance to break Cilic in the 3^rd game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).

Statistics

At the end of the match, Raonic scored 97 points vs. the Croatian’s 81 points.

Raonic served exceptionally well to win 80% of the points (55/69) behind his first serve, and he won 56% points (14/25) on his second serve. The Canadian fired 35 aces and he committed 3 double faults. The Canadian won this match even if he wasn’t that great in converting his break points as he converted only 38% (3/8). On the other side, the Croatian wasn’t able to conquer any break point (0/4). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Raonic and Cilic is 2-2.

Highlights Milos Raonic vs. Marin Cilic Australian Open – Melbourne

Raonic’s Interview

Next Match H2H: Milos Raonic vs. Novak Djokovic – stats

Raonic will face Djokovic in the quarter.

This will be the 10^th time that Milos Raonic and Novak Djokovic fight against each other. The head to head is 9-0 for Djokovic (see full H2H stats), 3-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Djokovic won 7-5 4-6 6-3 in the quarter in Cincinnati back in 2018.

Tennis Scores at the Australian Open

• Tennys SandgrenSandgren – Fabio FogniniFognini (7-6⁵ 7-5 6-7² 6-4) – See score progression
• Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Diego Sebastian SchwartzmanSebastian Schwartzman (6-3 6-4 6-4) – See score progression
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Marin CilicCilic (6-4 6-3 7-5) – See score progression
• Roger FedererFederer – Marton FucsovicsFucsovics (4-6 6-1 6-2 6-2) – See score progression

Upcoming matches

• Rafael NadalNadal – Nick KyrgiosKyrgios (4-3) – See H2H details
• Gael MonfilsMonfils – Dominic ThiemThiem (0-5) – See H2H details
• Milos RaonicRaonic – Novak DjokovicDjokovic (0-9) – See H2H details
• Marton FucsovicsFucsovics – Roger FedererFederer (0-2) – See H2H details
• Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Stan WawrinkaWawrinka (2-0) – See H2H details
• Andrey RublevRublev – Alexander ZverevZverev (0-3) – See H2H details