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Watch Hot Shot as Juan Martin del Potro turns up the heat against Kyle Edmund at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia. Watch live matches at tennistv.com. Photo: Getty Images

Milos Raonic maintained his winning start on the clay on Wednesday, striking a staggering 39 winners against Tommy Haas to move into the third round 6-4, 6-3 at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. The most impressive part about Raonic's 75-minute win: only 10 of those winners were aces, and 25 were from his forehand. The fifth-seed Canadian reached the third round last week at the Mutua Madrid Open (l. to Goffin) and made the final during his return to the red dirt at the TEB BNP Paribas Istanbul Open (l. Cilic) earlier this month. Raonic will next meet 12th seed Tomas Berdych. The Canadian leads their FedEx ATP Head2Head series 4-2 but Berdych won their only meeting on clay,...

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Seventh seed Kei Nishikori overcame fellow baseliner David Ferrer for the second time in as many weeks on Wednesday at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia. Nishikori showed few signs of the right wrist pain that had forced his withdrawal from last week’s Mutua Madrid Open in a 7-5, 6-2 second-round victory over 2010 finalist Ferrer, who is just one of 13 players in ATP World Tour history to record 700 match wins. "I felt pretty good," admitted Nishikori. "It was a little bit different condition-wise from last week and here, so I had to make some adjustments. In the match there were many ups and downs, especially in the first set, but I think overall I played a pretty good match."...

Watch highlights of Rafael Nadal, Stan Wawrinka and Milos Raonic advancing on Wednesday at the Internazionali BNL d'Italia in Rome. Watch live matches at tennistv.com. Getty Images photo.