Analysis for Raonic-Ball (ATP US Open)

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Carsten Ball will play Canadian Milos Raonic in the opening round of the US Open tournament and we will stay with Canadian prospect. Carsten Ball was born in US, he began playing ITF Future Tournaments at the age of 13. As a junior tennis player he reached a career high of number 9 in the world. He used to play mainly Challengers and Futures, he has a good serve and his play is suited well for hard courts. This year is certainly not proceeding according to his ideas – he suffered losses from player like Ito, Millot or Matosevic. In July he won challenger in Lexington but in August he lost two times to Bradley Klahn (5-7,7-6,4-6 in Binghamton and 6-7,2-6 in New Haven qualies).

Milos Raonic is 19 years old hot Canadian prospect. He is now ranked as the Canada's second highest singles player (he played Davis Cup matches for his country). He is a giant player (195 cm) who is known for powerful and precise serves as well as heavy forehands. His backhand down the line is also very dangerous. He has an offensive baseline style of play, and is also known for his solid feel at the net. He won two Futures in Korea this year and at Rogers Cup doubles in Toronto he and partner Vasek Pospisil had the privilege of playing against Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, and winning, 10-8 in the final set tie-break. It was first time that the World Numbers 1 and 2 had played together in a tour doubles match since Jimmy Connors and Arthur Ashe did so in 1976.

We must mention that he played nice matches here in US Open qualies too (he beated No. 31 seed Mischa Zverev (6-4,6-3), Alex Bogomolov (6-2,7-6) and No. 8 seed David Guez (7-5, 6-4) in final round). Anything above 1.8 is good enough for us.