“I think the experience of it was where I lacked the most,” Raonic said about the 2016 final. “I wish I’d been exerting a bit more energy. And I felt like it was sort of the same mistake I made two years earlier against Roger [Federer] in my first semi, where I let the nervous energy sort of build up on me. I never got it out of my body. I never got it out. I never expressed it. I never expressed, sort of, the energy.
“[It] caused a tension in me where I never really let go and started playing more freely.”
This year, the 26-year-old Raonic has decided that it’s better to show his emotions rather than keeping them inside all the time.
“It’s about being more expressive," he said. "So just showing it rather than trying to bottle it up, and it's going to change. Sort of to put it out there. Being more emotional and be a bit more, let's say, abrasive about it, and really just go after it, not really try to hold anything back.”
Speaking to reporters following his defeat in London, Raonic stated that it would not affect him at Wimbledon.
"Obviously the disappointment is high right now,” he said, “but whatever the result was this week, I don't think that's really going to change my chances."
