Dubai: Young Canadian tennis sensation Milos Raonic has promised to commence the pursuit of his dreams of winning grand slams starting with this week's French Open in Paris.
"Everything has come so quickly for me, but that won't stop me from pushing towards what I want to achieve in my career. I want more and more of success, especially in the grand slams and the big tournaments. I've always had dreams of winning Grand Slams and the big ones. Perhaps, I can control all the preparations for a tournament of this stature, but I cannot control the results that will follow," Raonic told Gulf News during an international teleconference from Canada yesterday.
With a serve that tops more than 200 km/h, everyone in the tennis world has been talking about Canada's 20-year-old player who made his way up the South African Airways ATP Rankings as he eased from No. 156 at the start of this year to his current No. 28. In only his eighth ATP World Tour main draw appearance at the start of this year, Raonic claimed his first ATP World Tour singles at the SAP Open in San Jose and then followed this by ending runner-up at the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships in Memphis.
"Going to Roland Garros is more trying to enjoy it and soak up the experience of being at a Grand Slam for the first time and that too being seeded," Raonic said.
"The most spectacular thing about Roland Garros is that it is a grand slam and it has to be treated with respect as these are the tournaments that you have to play your best tennis, and that is what I am looking forward towards," he added.
Raonic is considered a citizen of the new tennis world order: Born in Montenegro he moved to Canada when he was three due to the war in the Balkans, he then got an American education while choosing Spain as his destination to refine his tennis skills.
He first picked up a tennis racquet while attending a summer camp at the Blackmore Tennis Club in Richmond Hill, Ontario when he was eight years old. It was love at first sight and the rest is history that Raonic threatens to re-write.
