Queen’s Club R2 previews and picks: Raonic vs. Gasquet, Wawrinka vs. Anderson

The Grandstand

Gasquet1Milos Raonic and Stan Wawrinka will continue their Queen’s Club campaigns during second-round action on Wednesday at Queen’s Club. They are set for respective meetings with Richard Gasquet and Kevin Anderson.

Richard Gasquet vs. (3) Milos Raonic

Raonic and Gasquet will be facing each other for the fourth time in their careers when they do battle in the second round of the AEGON Championships on Wednesday. All three of their previous encounters have come on hard courts and the head-to-head series stands at 2-1 in Raonic’s favor. The eighth-ranked Canadian prevailed 7-6(4), 6-3 at the 2012 Cincinnati Masters and 3-6, 7-5, 6-4 a season later in Bangkok. Their most epic showdown came at the 2013 U.S. Open, with Gasquet surviving 6-7(4), 7-6(4), 2-6, 7-6(9), 7-5.

Playing in his first tournament since a minor foot procedure sidelined him from the French Open, Raonic opened with a 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 victory over…

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