Raonic feels silly in St. Petersburg

After winning his opener in St. Petersburg, Milos Raonic headed to press where he was made to feel a little silly. Speaking either about his first opponent J.J. Wolf, or his next opponent Alexander Bulbik, the Canadian was explaining that "he can make you feel silly at times with the way he can take the rhythm away from a match."

In the Russian translation, Raonic recognized the word "glupy" or "глупый" and pointed out that it means "stupid" not "silly".  The translator explained that silly and stupid are synonyms for them and both mean silly because "we have fewer stupid people in Russia."

"Now I feel even more silly," Raonic said, with a grin.

Though Raonic certainly could have picked up Russian during his years on tour, he was born in Montenegro and in his native tongue of Serbian, some words are similar to Russian. In Serbian, the word "glupo" directly means "stupid".

In any case, Raonic will take on Bublik on Thursday.