18-year-old Ryan Harrison, the wild card who had the pro-American crowd on its feet as he took out Canadian phenom Milos Raonic in a 2-1/2 hour 7-6(1), 4-6, 6-4 victory during the late afternoon.
“He's played a lot of matches where he's just looked at the guy that serves huge and plays big and doesn't really have much to lose right now,” Harrison said of Raonic.
“The fact that I have been beaten him a couple times [in juniors] and the fact that we're somewhat similar in age and I'm younger than him also helped me a little bit. The pair combined for 28 aces - 17 by Raonic, but Harrison's pluck in the first-round tie-break and his superior service down the stretch sent the world's No. 152 player into a showdown with none other than Roger Federer Wednesday.
Federer battled with Novak Djokovic for top honors in the "blink and you missed it" match of the day. Federer needed just 58 minutes to rush Juan Ignacio Chela, 6-0, 6-2, breaking his opponent five times and seldom missing on first serves.
