Solid win, although watching him (and not just today, when playing Murray a few months ago) the unforced errors are tough.
He had something like 54 winners today, and the opponent had 6.
He won 18 games, Garcia Lopez won 9 games. I know there are double faults, but that's a pretty big disparity where Lopez got his points. He treated it like a training match, but some of his trying to get too cute is causing unneccessary errors.
Regardless, fantastic win, and from the sounds of it, there's more then a good chance against Italy who doesn't have some the big names in the first place, unlike the cocky Spansih not sending a guy liker Ferrer.
That said, you can't count on Danzevic winning next round. Nestor and his partner Pospisil need to get in better shape...they had it to 1-1 in the fifth set and ran out of gas while Spain just kept at it yesterday. So you have to count on Raonic's two wins, and then a win from somewhere else, either doubles or the non Danzevic match.
But the momentum they're on, and playing at home, why not. Depending on the way the rest of it plays out, could be at home for the next round too.
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