Canadian tennis star Milos Raonic ended his run at the Wimbledon 2014 on Friday after a semifinal loss to seven-time titlist Roger Federer. The 23-year old admitted that though he is disappointed with the loss, he is looking at the positive and bright side of it all.
“How to deal with the situation is probably the thing I’ll put the most focus in,” Raonic said. “That’s something I didn’t do well today. That’s probably the thing that I can learn the most from. I believe I can put myself in the situation again, and the worst part would be to have the same feeling after. I know I can do much better. That’s the most I have to take out of it.
“Right now, looking at the big picture, the last two weeks have been, in a lot of ways, very successful. I go from never winning consecutive matches here, to probably only winning consecutive matches once on grass, to putting myself in position of the final four in this event.”
Raonic became the first Canadian male tennis player to reach a Grand Slam semifinal in the Open Era.
“There’s a lot of good things to take from it. If you asked me before the event started would I sign on a dotted line to make semis here. But when you get here to this point, I think it’s just human nature, the greed of human nature, that you want so much more. You feel it in front of you and you want to grab it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.
“I don’t think it was the physical things around me that made it difficult for me today. I think it was more so knowing what kind of opportunity lies ahead beyond this round and beyond that and what I really wanted to go for and chase. Maybe I just put that on myself too much.”
Raonic’s ranking will rise to world number six on Monday and he will be heading to the North American hardcourt season full of confidence.
