The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus for receiving signals in a wireless communication system, in which the signals comprise a dedicated channel estimation sequence, comprising an analog to digital converter adapted to convert received signals into digital samples with a sampling rate identical to a symbol rate of the received signals, a channel estimation means adapted to perform a channel estimation on the basis of the dedicated channel estimation sequence comprised in a digital samples of the received signals, an evaluation means adapted to evaluate the channel estimation result from the channel estimation means, and a control means adapted to control a phase of the sampling rate of the analog to digital converter on the basis of an evaluation of the channel estimation result.The present invention further relates to a corresponding receiving method.