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Raonic Ruthless In Roland Garros Opener

Fifth seed Milos Raonic struck 44 winners, including 15 aces, past Belgian Steve Darcis in a 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 victory over one hour and 31 minutes on Monday at Roland Garros. Raonic’s best performance at the clay-court Grand Slam championship was a run to the 2014 quarter-finals (l. to Djokovic). “It's always good to start and to be as efficient as possible,” said Raonic, who will next face Rogerio Dutra Silva or 2010 quarter-finalist Mikhail Youzhny. “I was able to break relatively early in all three sets and just sort of go about my business throughout the whole match. So I'm happy with that, and it gives me a little more freedom to spend more time working on my game...

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Raonic Rolls Past Haas; Zverev Serves Into 3R

Raonic Rolls Past Haas; Zverev Serves Into 3R

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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