Murray swiftly beats Raonic and the rain in New York :: Mmegi Online

In a two-hour torrent of near-perfection before the rain hit New York, Andy Murray bamboozled Milos Raonic to such an extent that the player John McEnroe regards as the most likely to be in the vanguard of the new wave trudged off the Arthur Ashe Court as if he'd gone 12 rounds with Vitali Klitschko.

The young Canadian, not usually in awe of his rivals, and who had said beforehand the result would be in his hands alone, described Murray's performance last night as "simply amazing".

Murray, playing at an irresistible pitch in nearly every exchange, won 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 to book a quarter-final place against Marin Cilic, whom he has beaten six times out of seven, and is in as good a frame of mind as when he beat Roger Federer at the Olympics less than a month ago. If that does not set him up to make a bit of tennis history in this United S Open at the weekend, nothing will.

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