Canada's Milos Raonic is off to the round of 16 at Wimbledon for the fifth time in his career.
"I thought it was good. I did the things I wanted to do," Raonic said. "You know, when it was important, I played as well as I could have."
Raonic, the 2016 Wimbledon runner-up, hasn't lost a set this tournament. He'll face No. 26 seed Guido Pella in the fourth round after the Argentine veteran upset No. 4 Kevin Anderson of South Africa 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (4).
Pella, 29, and Raonic, 28, never have faced each other.
Pella is in the round of 16 at a Grand Slam for the first time.
"It's going to be tough," Raonic said. "He played well here last year, beating Marin [Cilic], obviously getting a good win today, and even in his last match over [Andreas] Seppi who has always played well on grass. He's been on tour for a long time, and I don't know if he's been to this stage of a Grand Slam. But ... to beat Kevin [Anderson] here, that's a job very well done."
In a matchup of big servers on Friday, Raonic broke Opelka twice in each of the last two sets. Both players finished with 13 aces each but Raonic had only seven unforced errors to Opelka's 31.
The 6-foot-11 Opelka was making his Wimbledon debut and knocked out three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland in the second round.
No. 19 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal is scheduled to face Ugo Humbert of France in a third-round match later Friday.
Two Canadian men never have advanced to the round of 16 in a Grand Slam in the same year.
In women's doubles second-round play, the fourth-seeded team of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and China's Yifan Xu beat Kateryna Kozlova of Ukraine and Arina Rodionova of Australia 6-2, 6-1.
In men's doubles second-round action, Vancouver's Vasek Pospisil and Australia's Matthew Ebden lost 7-5, 6-4, 7-6 (3) to Joe Salisbury of Great Britain and Rajeev Ram of the U.S.
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July 05, 2019 at 11:12PM
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