Raonic sets record for most aces in best-of-three ATP match

pa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/milos-raonic/r975/overview'Milos Raonic/a on Monday set the record for most aces hit in a best-of-three-set ATP Tour match (since 1991) when he struck 47 in his 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-6(9) victory against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/cameron-norrie/n771/overview'Cameron Norrie/a at the cinch Championships./ppThe Canadian, who saved two match points in his victory, broke the record previously held by a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/ivo-karlovic/k336/overview'Ivo Karlovic/a, who hit 45 aces in the 2015 Halle quarter-finals against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/tomas-berdych/ba47/overview'Tomas Berdych/a. According to Infosys ATP Stats Raonic won 86 per cent of his first-serve points and held all 17 service games he played./ppldquo;With the scoreline and having to save match points, I probably needed every single one of those,rdquo; Raonic said. ldquo;But my serve has always been the most important shot to me. This small record, it's something special, something meaningful./ppldquo;Irsquo;m glad that behind that also stands a win because maybe I'd feel differently or maybe a bit more sour if I was to get that many free points and lose the match. So overall, a very positive thing and a fun stat to be proud of.rdquo;/ppnbsp;/pdiv style="position: relative; display: block; max-width: 100%;"div style="padding-top: 56.25%;"iframe src="https://players.brightcove.net/6057277721001/8gZSNwgH_default/index.html?videoId=6355183500112" allow="encrypted-media" style="position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;"/iframe/div/divpstrongPlayers To Hit 40 Aces In Best-Of-Three-Set ATP Tour Match (since 1991)/strong/ptable style="width: 100%;" tbody tr tdnbsp;strongPlayer/strong/td tdstrongnbsp;Tournament/strong/td tdnbsp;strongOpponent/strong/td tdstrongnbsp;Aces/strong/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/milos-raonic/r975/overview'Milos Raonic/a/td tdnbsp;2024 Queen's Club/td tdnbsp;Norrie/td tdnbsp;47/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/ivo-karlovic/k336/overview'Ivo Karlovic/a/td tdnbsp;2015 Halle, 2014 Zagreb/td tdnbsp;Berdych, Brands/td tdnbsp;45, 44/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mark-philippoussis/p338/overview'Mark Philippoussis/anbsp;/td tdnbsp;1995 Kuala Lumpur/td tdnbsp;B. Black/td tdnbsp;44/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nick-kyrgios/ke17/overview'Nick Kyrgios/a/td tdnbsp;2019 Brisbane/td tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/r-harrison/hd30/overview'R. Harrison/a/td tdnbsp;44/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/john-isner/i186/overview'John Isner/a/td tdnbsp;2023 Dallas, 2016 Queen's Club/td tdnbsp;Wu, Muller/td tdnbsp;44, 43/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mardy-fish/f339/overview'Mardy Fish/a/td tdnbsp;2007 Lyon/td tdnbsp;O. Rochus/td tdnbsp;43/td /tr tr tdnbsp;a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/reilly-opelka/o522/overview'Reilly Opelka/a/td tdnbsp;2019 New York (x2)/td tdnbsp;Isner, Schnur/td tdnbsp;43, 43/td /tr /tbody/tablepEntering the day, only seven men had hit at least 40 aces in a best-of-three-set ATP Tour match (since 1991). Karlovic, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/john-isner/i186/overview'John Isner/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/reilly-opelka/o522/overview'Reilly Opelka/a did it twice, while a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mardy-fish/f339/overview'Mardy Fish/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/goran-ivanisevic/i034/overview'Goran Ivanisevic/a, a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/nick-kyrgios/ke17/overview'Nick Kyrgios/a and a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/mark-philippoussis/p338/overview'Mark Philippoussis/a accomplished the feat once each./pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"47 ACES! ????????br /br /

The most aces in a three-set clash EVER, a href="https://twitter.com/milosraonic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@milosraonic/a fends off Norrie 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-6(9)a href="https://twitter.com/QueensTennis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"@QueensTennis/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/cinchChampionships?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#cinchChampionships/a a href="https://t.co/RUNIgsHUXk"pic.twitter.com/RUNIgsHUXk/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1802750717993615860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"June 17, 2024/a/blockquotescript async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/scriptpRaonicrsquo;s previous best in a best-of-three Tour clash came in 2011 in Memphis, where he hit 38 aces in the second round against a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/radek-stepanek/s694/overview'Radek Stepanek/a. He made the final that week./ppldquo;It definitely makes a big difference. It's a big part of my game,rdquo; Raonic said of his serve. ldquo;If I didn't have my serve, my career would be very different, so I'm very thankful for that. And I'm trying to make everything else around it a little bit better too.rdquo;/p[ATP APP]pThe former No. 3 player in the PIF ATP Rankings will next play fourth seed a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taylor-fritz/fb98/overview'Taylor Fritz/a or a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/taro-daniel/da81/overview'Taro Daniel/a./pp[NEWSLETTER FORM]/p