Milos Raonic (born 1990) is a Canadian professional tennis player. He reached a career-high world No. 4 singles ranking in May 2015, as ranked by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). His career highlights include a Grand Slam final at the 2016 Wimbledon Championships and two Grand Slam semifinals at the 2014 Wimbledon Championships and 2016 Australian Open. He was the 2011 ATP Newcomer of the Year, and has been ranked continuously inside the top 20 since August 2012. Raonic is the first player born in the 1990s to win an ATP title, to be ranked in the top 10, and to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals. He has eight ATP singles titles, all won on hard courts. He is frequently described as having one of the best serves among his contemporaries. Statistically, he is among the strongest servers in the Open Era, winning 91% of service games to rank third all-time. Aided by his serve, he plays an all-court style with an emphasis on short points. Raonic has more ATP titles and finals appearances in the Open Era than all other Canadian men combined.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1141:
Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara- Khitai, defeated the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan near Samarkand, present-day Uzbekistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Qatwan
1791:
The commissioners overseeing the construction of the United States' new capital city named it in honor of the first president: Washington, D.C. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.
1892:
At Lick Observatory, Edward Emerson Barnard discovered Amalthea, the third moon of Jupiter and the last natural satellite discovered by direct visual observation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalthea_(moon)
1939:
World War II: About 3,000 Polish Army forces began a nearly month-long defence of the Hel Peninsula during the German invasion of Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hel
2001:
Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
cleavage: 1. The act of cleaving or the state of being cleft. [from 19th c.] 2. The hollow or separation between a woman's breasts, especially as revealed by a low neckline. [from 20th c.] 3. (by extension) Any similar separation between two body parts, such as the buttocks or toes. 4. (biology) The repeated division of a cell into daughter cells after mitosis. [from 19th c.] 5. (chemistry) The splitting of a large molecule into smaller ones. 6. (mineralogy) The tendency of a crystal to split along specific planes. [from 19th c.] 7. (politics) The division of voters into voting blocs. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cleavage
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience. --Leo Tolstoy https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy
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