Murray-Raonic men’s semifinal set at Australian Open

Jamie has encountered Raonic before on the doubles court and while the tall Canadian with the huge serve has improved dramatically in the last couple of months, Jamie still believes his brother will be a match for him.

Murray, 28, and Raonic, 25, have played each other eight times on Tour, with honours even.

Two poor misses dragged Murray to deuce on his serve, a dumped backhand gave Raonic break point, but he saved at the net, celebrating with a “multiple lawnmower” fist-pump, and tidied it up with a forehand into the empty deuce corner.

“There are a lot of things that are important playing against the best in the world, you can not afford to do anything poorly”.

And he took advantage of the 13th seed’s struggles to race through the final set and seal his spot in Sunday’s final.

The last time the two met at a Grand Slam was at the fourth round of the US Open in 2012, a match Murray won resoundingly in straight sets.

The last thing Murray needed against such a serving monster was a tie-break, so a hold and a break was his best route to levelling the match. They’ve won major doubles titles at the 2011 French Open and 2013 U.S. Open.

“I guess that was sort of just the whole frustration of everything sort of getting out”, said Raonic, who tends not to be demonstrative on court. He indeed took the immediate initiative as he broke an increasingly leg-weary Raonic, who had previously undergone treatment for a foot problem.

Kerber summed up the message on Friday: “She told me, ‘Congrats, ‘ and she is happy for me and good luck in the finals”.

So she’s reaching out to someone who might be able to help – Steffi Graf, who leads Williams by one major title on the all-time list and was the last German to win the Australian Open in 1994.

The best way to live stream this semi-final will be with Channel Seven’s free streaming service.

“I’m incredibly humble and grateful for the position that I’m in”, Konta said.

“For example, the Wimbledon final [2013, when he won the title] and the last game of that match, in terms of how I was, like, how it would have appeared to everyone else, I looked fairly calm on the outside – not necessarily how I felt on the inside”.

Andy Murray was effective in the open air and devastating after the Rod Laver Arena roof was closed as he stormed into an Australian Open semi-final against Milos Raonic with a four-set win over David Ferrer. She came out of retirement to play doubles in 2013. A lot of those were off a serve and volley. “It’s about doing what I can to get ahead in points and be the aggressor and take it to my opponents”.

However, with the sport’s golden generation of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray refusing to go away, he is yet to fully realise his potential.

The first Canadian man to reach the semi-finals at Melbourne Park, the Carlos Moya-coached Raonic underlined his claim as one of the top young talents in the game by mowing through a tough draw and upsetting 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka in the fourth round.

Martina Hingis and Sania Mirza have continued what Hingis calls their “fairytale” run as a doubles combination.