Milos Raonic pulls off historic win at the Australian Open, as former champion Stan Wawrinka is OUT of the Grand Slam

• Raonic stuns 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka in five sets
• It’s the first time the Canadian has defeated a played ranked above Top 10 at a Grand Slam
• He will face Gael Monfils next

Milos Raonic achieved his greatest ever win at a Grand Slam, defeating former champion Stan Wawrinka at the Australian Open on Monday night.

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The big-serving Canadian stunned Wawrinka 6–4, 6–3, 5–7, 4–6, 6–3 to reach his second quarterfinal in a row at the first major of the year. He effectively became just the first Canadian man to have reached four Grand Slam quarterfinals.

The victory took a little longer than initially expected though, as Raonic was two sets to love up at one stage and just one game away from the historic win in the third set. However, Wawrinka held serve and clinched the crucial break at 5–5 to edge the match into a fourth set.

Wawrinka then maintained the momentum, as he capitalised on 17 unforced errors from the Canadian to obtain the only break of the fourth set and extended the match further into a fifth.

However, Raonic had his own opportunities off the Wawrinka serve as well. In fact he had six break point chances, but he ultimately could not make the most of them.

It then remained on serve in the deciding set for the first five games, despite break point chances for both players. But Wawrinka’s double faults eventually caught up with him, as he later pushed a forehand passing shot long, sealing the break for Raonic.

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Raonic subsequently held serve comfortably, firing down his 24th ace for the 5–2 lead, seemingly putting the match out of Wawrinka’s reach. However it was still difficult to discount the 2014 champion just yet, as Wawrinka had already dug himself out of trouble to push the match to well over three hours.

But the match was quickly slipping out of his hands when consecutive unforced errors handed Raonic his first match point.

Wawrinka managed to save it, with a precision inside out forehand winner just clipping the line on the Raonic backhand side. He went on to hold serve, but Raonic would make no mistake second time around, holding his serve relatively comfortably to book his place in the quarterfinals.

The Canadian — who rarely shows his emotion, remaining visibly calm as Wawrinka reeled through the third and fourth sets — let out a loud cheer towards his player’s box.

He is now scheduled for a battle against Gael Monfils, who earlier ousted Andrey Kuznetsov.

Meanwhile, it’s Wawrinka’s worst loss at the Grand Slam since 2013. Moreover it’s the first time he has lost to a player other than World No. 1 Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open since 2012.