:00:08. > :00:14.Welcome back to the Championships. Quarterfinals day here, and as you
:00:15. > :00:18.can see, the covers are off, the players are back on and we can
:00:19. > :00:29.resume this match between Milos Raonic and Roberto Bautista Agut
:00:30. > :00:37.back. Raonic was leading four games to one. It has been one-way traffic
:00:38. > :00:41.so far in this match, and coach John McEnroe is delighted with Raonic
:00:42. > :00:46.taking that opening set. So we can join it now live just before the
:00:47. > :00:54.start of the second set, and rejoin John Lloyd and Andrew Cotter.
:00:55. > :01:02.ANDREW COTTER: It will have to be an entirely different performance from
:01:03. > :01:15.Roberta Wright is that -- Roberto Bautista Agut. The rain delay hasn't
:01:16. > :01:23.changed anything. Raonic looking very comfortable indeed. Number
:01:24. > :01:31.three seed, but it is the number six seed, Bautista serving to start the
:01:32. > :01:36.set. JOHN LLOYD: That service fast but it
:01:37. > :01:53.is just not getting the job done. Well, this match could slip away
:01:54. > :02:11.very quickly from Bautista. He needs to rouse himself from his slumbers.
:02:12. > :02:18.How easy it was the Bautista earlier today against Donald Young, but this
:02:19. > :03:15.is an entirely different level. JOHN LLOYD: Oh, nicely done.
:03:16. > :03:20.Bautista lost his footing a little bit on that backhand slice, and then
:03:21. > :03:24.he just slips here a little bit. Then he makes up his mind and
:03:25. > :03:27.decides to move in, but it was too late by then, he couldn't cover the
:03:28. > :03:49.net and get in their quick enough. Break point.
:03:50. > :03:55.A sorry effort, and you can't get behind the first server of Raonic.
:03:56. > :04:01.Right at the start of the second set, and Raonic has not been broken
:04:02. > :04:07.in this tournament, is rarely broken, so a mountain to climb for
:04:08. > :04:13.the Spaniard. You can see the theory of hitting body serves doesn't exist
:04:14. > :04:17.with Raonic. He doesn't bother with that, he just goes four aces, and he
:04:18. > :04:22.mixes them up, it is beautifully done here. But why go for the body
:04:23. > :04:28.serve when you can serve as many clean aces as he does, I suppose. It
:04:29. > :04:31.is a marvellous serve, but he is not giving you any reading as to whether
:04:32. > :04:36.he is going out wide or down the middle, he can do both with perfect
:04:37. > :04:45.ball toss and disguise, you can't tell where he is serving. He came up
:04:46. > :04:54.against equal firepower in the first round, in Nick Kyrgios. But here,
:04:55. > :05:01.eight aces to zero, it is an unequal contest.
:05:02. > :05:10.Why bother with the body serve? I think if he came up against Djokovic
:05:11. > :05:16.or Murray where their return of serve out wide is so good, he might
:05:17. > :05:17.throw a few more of those in, change the pattern up, but he doesn't need
:05:18. > :05:44.to today. That is too good, though!
:05:45. > :05:52.Cross-court in front of a despairing Raonic. That is the best point he
:05:53. > :05:57.has played today. Raonic a bit casual, and that is the only danger
:05:58. > :05:59.for the Canadian, losing his concentration, because at the moment
:06:00. > :06:05.this is barely a practice session for him. He had a tough match
:06:06. > :06:14.against Nick Kyrgios, and then two tough set against your E Veseli.
:06:15. > :06:22.That is a wicked delivery. It comes at you at such height, as well. It
:06:23. > :06:25.doesn't get as high as John Isner, but it is up there. And such a
:06:26. > :06:43.relaxed motion. One large spot of rain on our
:06:44. > :06:54.commentary booth window. Hope it is a loner.
:06:55. > :07:15.That was not a lesson in good footwork on the baseline there.
:07:16. > :07:35.Just a little bit more drizzle now, I am sorry to report. But again,
:07:36. > :07:42.there is plenty of blue sky up there as well. Plenty is perhaps an
:07:43. > :07:58.exaggeration. There is some blue sky up there.
:07:59. > :08:03.Well, mutterings from Raonic, he doesn't want to do himself a
:08:04. > :08:16.mischief, and looking at those skies we just saw...
:08:17. > :08:22.For a Raonic, for him to want to go off, it means it is slippery,
:08:23. > :08:28.because he is winning this match, the momentum is totally with him.
:08:29. > :09:08.The umpire says play on. He is not happy, Raonic, with the
:09:09. > :09:35.surface still. He is pleading his case with the umpire.
:09:36. > :09:54.You can certainly see a few more drops coming down now, but it is
:09:55. > :09:59.still OK to play, and it is the only thing that can really stop Milos
:10:00. > :10:05.Raonic at the moment, I think. He is talking to the umpire again. He
:10:06. > :10:08.doesn't like it. We have had this discussion during this week many
:10:09. > :10:13.times, it is very difficult about who gets the final say. Obviously
:10:14. > :10:19.the umpire has the final say, but can an umpire really tell what is
:10:20. > :10:25.fit to play and what isn't? It is a difficult choice in that way. I
:10:26. > :10:27.suppose the referee will make the final decision, but other than
:10:28. > :10:42.carrying on... It is not too bad out there just
:10:43. > :10:52.now, but it is all about the playing surface. This is the worst surface
:10:53. > :10:55.in the world for any moisture, although hard courts in America
:10:56. > :10:58.obviously where they play the US Open is the same sort of thing, it
:10:59. > :11:07.can get very dangerous pretty quickly. Just trying to work out
:11:08. > :11:13.what direction the weather is going. I think that dark stuff is going
:11:14. > :11:16.away. Shades on, the sun is shining, it is moving over, so I think Fergus
:11:17. > :11:23.Murphy has done the right thing, held his nerve, stared down Raonic.
:11:24. > :11:30.UMPIRE: Ladies and gentlemen, take your seats, please. The good thing,
:11:31. > :11:35.the wettest part of the court is always towards the back where it
:11:36. > :11:39.tends to get a little bit more moisture back there, and Raonic
:11:40. > :11:45.doesn't go back there. That looks nice! It is fairly bleak, but the
:11:46. > :12:18.weather is coming from behind that camera there. All is positive.
:12:19. > :12:50.It is backing it up well, beforehand is looking good today.
:12:51. > :12:56.Well, a little bit of fortune clipping the top of the net, but it
:12:57. > :13:00.was a wonderful return anyway. Trying to serve- volley on a second
:13:01. > :13:14.serve, you can see he is not getting close enough in behind it.
:13:15. > :13:39.He didn't mean that shot! But he will take it. He needs some sort of
:13:40. > :13:44.a break to get him back in this match. At least he has a slight
:13:45. > :14:04.chance to break this serve, but that was a complete misfit. -- mis-hit.
:14:05. > :14:11.It is so easy to get frustrated when you play against someone like
:14:12. > :14:14.Raonic. You work hard, get yourself into the point, and then the serve
:14:15. > :14:17.comes right down into the corner like that, and you are sometimes
:14:18. > :14:29.just walking side to side without even touching the ball.
:14:30. > :14:38.Raonic holds, and maintains that advantage in this second set.
:14:39. > :14:41.Bautista knows about Raonic, they have played three times and he has
:14:42. > :14:45.lost all three, but he came very close in their last meeting which
:14:46. > :14:46.was in Shanghai last year, he was couple of points away from winning
:14:47. > :14:51.it at one stage. Their first meeting on grass,
:14:52. > :15:45.though. Fortunately, you don't want to keep
:15:46. > :15:49.eating those kinds of shots. The second serve his just sitting there,
:15:50. > :15:51.a good hit from Raonic, and how he did that, but you can't keep doing
:15:52. > :15:58.that sort of thing. 98 mph on that server is not much
:15:59. > :16:39.pace, that's for sure. Again, it is a great return from
:16:40. > :16:41.Raonic, but it is not of the speediest serve. 92 mph, and didn't
:16:42. > :17:03.get it out wide enough. But it is another hold for Bautista.
:17:04. > :17:10.Those players are just sitting there.
:17:11. > :17:26.Still the advantage to Raonic, who has piled down 13 aces so far to
:17:27. > :17:32.zero from Bautista Agut. Enjoying some serving demonstration from
:17:33. > :17:37.Raonic. It is just magnificent. You can imagine all the targets that he
:17:38. > :17:41.hits out in practice, they put up those targets, and he will just be
:17:42. > :17:46.hammering down serves there, so it feels like he can do that in his
:17:47. > :17:52.sleep. He almost can, it is unbelievable, the accuracy he has.
:17:53. > :18:00.But what Bautista hasn't done today, he hasn't taken care of business on
:18:01. > :18:05.his side of the court with his serve. There is not much he could
:18:06. > :18:13.have done with the Raonic serve. You have to try to hang in there until
:18:14. > :18:16.at least 3-3 or 4-4, but if you lose your opening service game is, you
:18:17. > :18:23.are in big trouble. He hasn't played well today at all.
:18:24. > :18:28.UMPIRE: Time. He is ready, but Raonic taking all the time he was
:18:29. > :18:32.entitled to. Kyrgios was very keen to get going, a brisk player, and
:18:33. > :19:29.Raonic was slowing things down, as he is perfectly entitled to do.
:19:30. > :19:35.That just separates the good servers from the really great ones. That
:19:36. > :19:56.second serve was 118 mph. That is why I suppose he can bully
:19:57. > :20:00.some levels at a player below him, but as you were saying, when he
:20:01. > :20:04.comes up against the better players, the great return is, then he has to
:20:05. > :20:05.look to other parts of his game which perhaps do need to be lifted
:20:06. > :20:17.and improved. But Bautista Agut has no answer at
:20:18. > :20:33.the moment to the server of Raonic. You can just imagine if you looked
:20:34. > :20:36.at his matches how many balls on the returns of serve where they do come
:20:37. > :20:40.back that are around that service line, because players just barely
:20:41. > :20:45.get the ball back, and how many times he has that forehand from just
:20:46. > :20:47.inside the service box which he can do some damage with. He must
:20:48. > :22:37.practice that all the time. A few too many unforced errors. He
:22:38. > :22:41.is a high-calibre player, Roberto Bautista-Agut, he has won twice this
:22:42. > :23:10.year, but he is just not quite up to his usual level this afternoon.
:23:11. > :23:18.It is wide, it is a hold for Roberto Bautista-Agut, so he still has some
:23:19. > :23:21.hopes, a slim hope, but he has the break advantage and very much the
:23:22. > :23:25.advantage in this match. SUE BARKER: We are staying with this
:23:26. > :23:30.match here on BBC Two for the moment, but if you want to continue
:23:31. > :23:34.watching, it is over on the red button right now, so coverage of
:23:35. > :23:38.this match and the other quarterfinal to be played this
:23:39. > :23:43.evening will be on the red button. We will be back tomorrow, but over
:23:44. > :23:48.on BBC One, so we will be on BBC One tomorrow for the mens semifinals
:23:49. > :23:52.day, Andy Murray and Marin Cilic, we know that will be one of the
:23:53. > :23:58.semifinals. But for the time being, we are staying with this one.
:23:59. > :24:01.ANDREW COTTER: And the winner of this one, which does at the moment
:24:02. > :24:12.look as if it will be Roberto Bautista Agut will play either
:24:13. > :24:16.Bernard Tomic or Gilles Muller. It is just ticking along at the moment
:24:17. > :24:19.with a sense of the inevitable, because it is very hard to see this
:24:20. > :24:25.man being broken. JOHN LLOYD: As long as he keeps his
:24:26. > :24:31.concentration, he is two service holds away from winning this match.
:24:32. > :24:35.The Spaniard hasn't come up with anything different, moved up, got
:24:36. > :24:38.any closer to the serve. He is almost accepting the inevitable. It
:24:39. > :24:42.doesn't seem there is much thought going in. I know it is difficult
:24:43. > :24:49.against Raonic, because he doesn't give you any rhythm, but this is a
:24:50. > :24:56.very comfortable match so far for the Canadian. He was nearly a
:24:57. > :25:02.finalist at the Australian Open this year, lost in five sets in the semis
:25:03. > :25:08.to Andy Murray. And close to the semifinals here.
:25:09. > :25:34.It is a snub of 14 for Raonic. -- ace number 14 for Raonic.
:25:35. > :25:46.OK, where do I stand here? Might as well gamble and take off a second
:25:47. > :25:55.early and go one way or the other. You could hear that one. That was
:25:56. > :26:08.just... A missile. Three points, three aces.
:26:09. > :26:43.What do you do, John? Nothing you can do. Talking to some of the great
:26:44. > :26:48.return as of the game, that even they in that game there would have
:26:49. > :26:51.no answer. The serve was so accurate, and you would literally
:26:52. > :26:56.have had to have taken off a second or two early to get any of those
:26:57. > :27:07.serves. So, now serving to stay in the match.
:27:08. > :27:19.That is rather cruel. Throwing in the Hat, if not the towel. He will
:27:20. > :27:22.be wishing the colour of this court was read right now, a nice clay
:27:23. > :27:54.court where he could be sliding into this one and not do that afterwards.
:27:55. > :28:02.You can just see Raonic they're not that flexible getting back into
:28:03. > :29:34.position on that half-volley he had to hit.
:29:35. > :29:39.First double fault of the match for the Spaniard.
:29:40. > :29:57.UMPIRE: Quiet, please. APPLAUSE
:29:58. > :30:05.That is another hold for Bautista. UMPIRE: New balls, please.
:30:06. > :30:09.What do you think would have to improve around itch? There are a few
:30:10. > :30:14.players just below the very top level, they threaten to get there,
:30:15. > :30:20.but what should improving his game? I think it is just the flexibility.
:30:21. > :30:25.That is something, the hands, his hands sometimes, he doesn't have
:30:26. > :30:28.that much feel, but I think that is something you can improve a little
:30:29. > :30:34.bit on, but you are not going to become a master at it like Murray or
:30:35. > :30:38.Djokovic in that way. So he has to keep working on his strengths and
:30:39. > :30:42.keep pushing forwards, and sometimes still, he hasn't done it in this
:30:43. > :30:45.match because it has been easy for him, but sometimes there is a
:30:46. > :30:50.hesitation about moving forward and imposing himself, and with someone
:30:51. > :30:54.like Raonic, when you have that sort of wingspan and the power he has of
:30:55. > :30:57.the forehand on the serve, you have got to be thinking of getting into
:30:58. > :31:03.the forecourt as much as possible, going out his opponents, don't let
:31:04. > :31:08.them breathe. Sometimes he just hesitates a little, particularly at
:31:09. > :31:13.crucial points, and I think if he improves that, he is dangerous. Who
:31:14. > :31:20.wants to play him when he serves like this? Only one extended run at
:31:21. > :31:25.Wimbledon, he reached the semifinals two years ago, and lost to Federer.
:31:26. > :32:44.Serving for the match. Just a reminder, the winner of this
:32:45. > :32:52.one, and it certainly seems like Raonic is almost there, will play
:32:53. > :32:57.Gilles Muller or Bernard Tomic, there are match coming up after
:32:58. > :33:04.this. And you can watch that, it is not too far away, on the red button.
:33:05. > :33:39.What a masterclass of serving this has been.
:33:40. > :34:03.Still defiant, and a cry of Vamos! From Roberto Bautista-Agut.
:34:04. > :34:11.We come to this point, Raonic serving for the match, and suddenly
:34:12. > :34:31.the first break point that Roberto Bautista-Agut has had.
:34:32. > :34:42.UMPIRE: Mr Bautista is challenging the call on the left service line.
:34:43. > :34:51.The ball was called in. He is pretty confident that this one is out. Call
:34:52. > :35:28.challenge was immediate. UMPIRE: The call stands. Deuce.
:35:29. > :35:38.Well, that was... No one was expecting that.
:35:39. > :35:47.UMPIRE: Mr Bautista Agut has two challenges remaining. As the clock
:35:48. > :35:52.just hits an hour, things are slowing down a little in this set.
:35:53. > :35:58.And through he goes fittingly with an ace! Andy Murray is through,
:35:59. > :35:59.Marin Cilic is through, and now the number three