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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I'm not really saying Pospisil is a better player than Milos per se, just that he's a tougher matchup for the top players than Milos is because Milos is still for the most part a one-trick pony and Pospisil has a more rounded game that can offer more challenges (and he actually even took a set of Federer in a final, in Switzerland, indoors no less, so yeah...). But Milos has to serve at such a nearly perfect level to beat the Federer's and Nadal's of the world. Guys like Ferrer and Berdych and Wawrinka and Del Potro (when healthy) are much more dangerous than Milos to the top guys because they can offer variety. Milos has to serve at nearly 90% not just to win, but to have a chance to win. The margin of error is incredibly thin for Milos.
I mean Ferrer has more set wins and breaks of Roger in the last two weeks than Milos has ever done to him. Milos is improving to be sure, but he's not even in the wave of next guys yet like Berdych and Ferrer because he can't even beat the top guys like those other guys have. Until he develops the full game he can rely upon, other players can expose him badly (namely by working the backhand which Fed did extensively Saturday).
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I hear you but in my eyes Pospisil will always just be there unless he fully commits to singles in order to improve his play. You can be a jack of all trades but a master of none and still see modest results on tour from time to time. If you saw him play the top 10 players more often it would be obvious he's got a very long ways to go to reaching the elite.
In Raonic, its not really his serve that has gotten him in trouble against Novak/Nadal/Federer. Its the fact that he hasn't been able to settle into a groove and dictate the pace like he can do against 95% of the rest of the tour. He's been able to push around almost everyone he's played these last two years with the exception of the top 3 and that will surely come eventually.
Players like Berdych, Ferrer, Tsonga etc have been chipping away at the top three for years and not really done much against them either. At least Raonic has some wins against most of the top 10 to his credit and seems to still be getting better. He didn't even have the quality forehand or net play ability he's shown under Lubicic a few years ago.