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I love the way Raonic composes himself. Cool and collected.

So many tennis players are prima donnas, tantrums and over celebrating. In the second set we saw Raonic come unglued a bit, more than usual for him, and I think it was his undoing tonight. A marathon match favored him, and after he captured the first set he was in great shape. But when his serve and groundstroke started failing him he let it get to him instead of slowing everything down and regrouping, and that's when it started to unravel. You could really see the anxiety on the third set point in the 3rd set. He had 6-6 on his strings, and the pressure cracked him.

Understandable playing in Rod Laver under the lights and the whole stadium against you.

A couple points that are extremely encouraging moving forward.

Raonic was able to recompose himself, and despite not having his best stuff he hung in there.

Match game. Would have been easy to fold in the tent. But he battled and almost got the set back on serve. 3 match points and he played superbly, going for his shots and making them comfortably. That shows the true mettle of a player. The pressure got to him a bit tonight, but he shows signs he could be a player that rises above it and play his best tennis with the pressure is really on. And that's a characteristic of any champion.

He wasn't going to get by Djokovic, but it's too bad he didn't make it. He needs to get beaten around by the top seeds a bit so he can learn and grow. Getting controlled by Djokovic back on the main court would have been great experience.

And his ranking will drop slightly with the 3rd round exit. It's likely by the end of February he'll fall out of the top 32, but if he stays healthy he'll rocket up later in the year and could even be challenging for top 10 by year's end.

Congrats to Hewitt. Reminiscent of Andre Agassi's last great run at the U.S Open in 2006.