Milos Raonic advanced to the round of 16 at the Western & Southern Open before fellow Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime missed a good chance to do the same thing on Monday.
Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., beat Great Britain's Daniel Evans 6-3, 7-5 in a second-round match at the opening tournament in the ATP Tour's restart, while Montreal's Auger-Aliassime lost 6-7 , 6-2, 7-6 to American wild-card entrant Tennys Sandgren.The Canadian never faced a break point and won 89 per cent of his points on his first serve.Raonic will next face the winner of a match between No. 5 seed Alexander Zverev of Germany and British wild-card entrant Andy Murray.
In the tiebreak, Auger-Aliassime led 5-4 with serve before double-faulting and then making an unforced error. The 55th-ranked Sandgren then won on serve. It was a sloppy match, with Auger-Aliassime making 58 unforced errors, 13 more than Sandgren. The Canada also double-faulted 15 times.
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