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MIAMI -- Canadian Milos Raonic knows what fuelled the 100th hardcourt victory of his professional career. The 23-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., defeated Germanys Benjamin Becker 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday in the fourth round of the Sony Open in just 89 minutes. "It was good Timbits," joked Raonic. He then explained that his goal was to advance to the quarter-finals of the Sony Open, a tournament he had struggled in in the past two years. "I think that is a bonus on getting the win, which was the main focus," said Raonic of his 100th hardcourt victory. Raonic will play top seed Rafael Nadal, who beat Italian Fabio Fognini 6-2, 6-2 in 62 minutes. Nadal has won all four matches hes had with Raonic. "When he gets ahead in the points hes difficult to keep up with," said Raonic. "I have to get ahead in the points early and stay ahead. And obviously serving, as well, is going to be key. "I think the biggest difficulty of playing Rafa is there is really nobody that plays like him, so whenever you come up against him in the tournament its quite different." On Tuesday, Raonic was frustrated on his first two match point chances in the final game as he tried to end the contest with a break of Beckers serve. But Becker thwarted the 12th seed on both winning occasions thanks to Raonic errors. Raonic went back to work, setting up another match-winner with an overhead from deep in the backcourt only to have Becker save it. Raonic finally claimed victory after a second set which lasted one hour. "I was not losing any points on my serve pretty much, but I was not dealing with it the right way when he was getting a few returns back in play," said Raonic. Raonic will wait for an opponent as top seed Rafael Nadal faces Italian 14th seed Fabio Fognini. Raonic stands 0-4 against Nadal and split with Fognini in a pair of 2013 matches. Reaching the quarter-finals was a breakthrough for Raonic, who has stalled at the third round at the last two Sony Opens. He had to withdraw with strep throat at last years edition after going out injured the year before in a walkover to Andy Murray. Despite landing heavily on his left leg and wearing kinesio tape on much of his back, Raonic insisted he is not suffering physically. "The are just really, really minor things that are little nicks, but nothing that affects me in any way," he said. Fake NCAA Jerseys . On Sunday, head coach Patrick Roy said the teams leading scorer will skate at Mondays morning practice and the club will make a decision on his status for Game 6 at that point. NCAA Jerseys 2020 . "There are a lot of things that are going very well in this organization. Im not coming in here to rip things apart," Nicholson told reporters Friday. 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In the two races Jansrud didnt win, he finished second, like in Fridays downhill won by American racer Steven Nyman.I think of every day as a new day. Im not thinking about how my last race is, said Jansrud, who celebrated his seventh career victory with a bow to the crowd. But when I take a step back and see how consistent I am, its pretty good — pretty weird.Local favourite Dominik Paris of Italy finished second, 0.46 seconds behind, for his second top-three result in two days. Hannes Reichelt of Austria was third, 0.54 back, to reach the podium here for the first time in 12 years.(Jansrud) doesnt make mistakes. Thats the difference, Paris said. Hes beatable but you have to give more than 100 per cent and not make any errors. Otherwise its difficult.Svindal, the two-time overall champion and Jansruds teammate, is out indefinitely after tearing his Achilles tendon playing soccer the week before the season started. Miller is planning to return next month from back surgery and Guay, the 2011 world downhill champion from Canada, is also hoping to return soon from a pair of off-season knee operations.Aksel went out and I kind of felt the pressure to step up, Jansrrud said.dddddddddddd We have a small team and suddenly I went into being the oldest guy, a captains role.The 29-year-old Jansrud moved 152 points ahead of technical specialist Marcel Hirscher in the overall standings.If I want to compete in the overall I need to ski incredibly fast in the speed events, because there are more technical events, Jansrud said. Im leading by 150 points now but Im sure hell be 50 points ahead after Madonna. ... Its exciting, at least theres a fight.The circuit traverses the Gardena pass to nearby Alta Badia for a giant slalom on Sunday then heads to Madonna Di Campiglio for a slalom on Monday night to conclude a series of four races in four days.This race was originally scheduled for Friday but was flip-flopped with the downhill in an attempt to preserve the course amid warm weather.Vincent Kriechmayr, a 23-year-old Austrian, finished fourth for his best career result, and Christof Innerhofer of Italy finished fifth for his best result this season after struggling from chronic back pain.Olympic downhill champion Matthias Mayer was on pace for the podium before he went wide around a turn toward the end of his run and skied through a gate as he attempted to correct his course.Nyman skied off course shortly into his run, while American teammate Ted Ligety missed a gate on the bottom section. The top American finisher was Olympic silver medallist Andrew Weibrecht of Lake Placid, New York, in 19th.Ligety will be aiming for his third career win on the Gran Risa course in Sundays GS, the event he won at the Sochi Olympics. Hes struggled at times to keep up with Hirscher this season but put in some extra training the past week.I feel like I figured out a couple of things on the steep pitches, Ligety said. I havent had the confidence to push my limits.___Andrew Dampf can be followed at www.twitter.com/asdampf ' ' '