Raonic reaches third round at French Open

PARIS Milos Raonic is through to the third round of the French Open after a 4-6, 6-2, 6-3, 6-4 win over Rogerio Dutra Silva on Wednesday.

Raonic fired his 25th ace of the day on match point to set up a third-round meeting with Guillermo Garcia-Lopez.

The match lasted two hours and 23 minutes, but could have been decided quicker had Raonic been more successful on break chances. The fifth seed from Thornhill, Ont., won just five of 20 break points.

After dropping a first set in which he was broken twice, Raonic controlled the next two before running into some trouble in the fourth.

Raonic and Dutra Silva held serve until the ninth game, where the Brazilian faced triple break point. But Raonic couldn’t put him away until his seventh break point.

Raonic went into Game 10 up 5-4 and emphatically put the match away with his booming serve, winning every point with an ace.

Raonic has won both his career meetings with Garcia-Lopez: a Davis Cup win in 2013 and a victory at Miami in 2014, both on hard court.

On the women’s side, Montreal’s Francoise Abanda was bounced from the second round after losing 6-0, 6-0 to 11th-seeded Caroline Wozniacki.

Abanda, playing in her first French Open, was broken six times on eight chances by the former world No. 1.

Eugenie Bouchard, also from Montreal, plays her second-round match Thursday against 17th-seed Anastasija Sevastova.

Meanwhile, in contrasting fashion, defending champions Novak Djokovic and Garbine Muguruza both advanced.

The second-seeded Djokovic barely put a foot wrong in a 6-1, 6-4, 6-3 win over Joao Sousa, while Muguruza, seeded fourth, had to dig deep to down Anett Kontaveit 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-2.

Rafael Nadal beat Robin Haase 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.