PARIS (AP) - Milos Raonic's second-round opponent at the French Open knows what he's in for: a real challenge when it comes to returning serve.
Canada's Raonic has won 90 percent of his service games in 2016, which ranks second on the ATP tour. His 315 aces entering Roland Garros is the third-highest total this season. He hit a 136 mph serve in the first round, the second-fastest of the tournament.
So Adrian Mannarino was not shy at all about what it will be like to face the eighth-seeded Raonic today.
"It's a pain. It always is. You know there will be a lot of aces. You know that it will be very difficult to adjust your (style of) play," said Mannarino, a Frenchman who is ranked 58th and never has faced Raonic.
"It's really important to stay focused, especially at important moments of the match," Mannarino said, explaining that otherwise, "it could be very painful for me."
Raonic's game is best suited to faster surfaces - his best Grand Slam showings were semifinal runs on grass courts at Wimbledon in 2014, and on hard courts at the Australian Open this January - but he did make it to the quarterfinals at the French Open in 2014 before losing to Novak Djokovic.
He hasn't lost a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as Mannarino since 2013.
Murray back at it: No. 2-seeded Andy Murray heads out to play for the third consecutive day, taking on Mathias Bourgue, a 22-year-old French wild-card entry who is ranked 164th. Murray is joined in the second round by Kyle Edmund and Aljaz Bedene, the first time since 1975 that three British men made it that far at Roland Garros.