Milos Raonic continued his return to full fitness and form on Tuesday when he maintained his perfect record over Jeremy Chardy for a place in the Miami Open presented by Itau quarter-finals.
The Canadian knocked out Grigor Dimitrov’s conqueror 6-3, 6-4 in 86 minutes to set up a clash against in-form sixth-seeded Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, the BNP Paribas Open champion, or No. 22 seed Filip Krajinovic of Serbia. Having dropped to No. 40 in ATP Rankings on 26 February — his lowest position since No. 59 on 14 February 2011— Raonic has bounced back and two weeks ago lost to Del Potro in the Indian Wells semi-finals.
Raonic won 85 per cent of his first-service points (28/33) against Chardy to reach the Miami last eight for a third time (also 2014, 2016). He broke serve in the third and ninth games of the first set, then raised his game to break in the final game.
The 27-year-old Raonic struck 12 aces past Chardy to improve to 6-0 in their FedEx ATP Head2Head series. He has hit 38 aces in three matches at the ATP World Tour Masters 1000 tournament and, according to ATP Scores & Stats, Raonic is No. 15 in the all-time aces list with 6,077 aces.
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