PARIS - Milos Raonic kept his long-shot hopes of a place in next weeks World Tour Finals alive, beating Robin Haase 6-3, 6-4 Wednesday in a second-round match at the Paris Masters. Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., has a long way to go if he is to somehow reach the year-end event starting in Monday London, which is limited to the best eight on the ATP Tour. Raonic stands a provisional 11th in the points race and must reach the final at the Bercy arena on Sunday if he is to have a chance to book a ticket to London. He would be the first Canadian to reach the finals in singles play, though Torontos Daniel Nestor has made multiple appearances in the doubles event of the season wrapup tournaments. Raonic finished with 14 aces against Haase and never faced a break point in just under an hour on court. "I felt like I played well," Raonic said. "I executed well and gave myself opportunities on the return side. I was solid with my service games. "But its a long way to go for London, there is a lot more tennis to play. The most important thing is to come tomorrow and give my best effort." Canadian doubles veteran Nestor ended his season with a loss alongside Leander Paes, as the seventh seeds went out in the first round to Mexicos Santiago Gonzalez and American Scott Lipsky 6-4, 6-3 in 50 minutes. Raonic, playing his first match since losing a Stockholm quarter-final this month, swept through the opening set in 27 minutes. The second set began with a break for Raonic, facing the Dutchman for the first time after Haase split two matches in as many weeks against Canadas Vasek Pospisil. That proved to be enough to ensure victory as Raonic advanced on the first of three match points. Raonic won his 45th match of the season and next face sixth seed Tomas Berdych, who is already in the year-end field. Raonic has won both of his matches against the Czech, most recently last September to take the Bangkok title. 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Seemingly coasting to a second straight opening-night blowout, the Knicks instead were behind with less than 3 minutes remaining before Chandlers follow dunk and two straight baskets by Anthony put them back ahead by five. "It was a test for us tonight to see what type of team we are when it comes down to situations like that," Anthony said. Chandler added another basket in the Knicks 10-2 run to close out their sixth straight victory over the Bucks and give them their first win in Madison Square Garden since the completion of its $1 billion renovation. Raymond Felton added 18 points and Iman Shumpert had 16 for the Knicks, who shot 51 per cent but committed 22 turnovers. Gary Neal scored 16 points and fellow newcomer Caron Butler had 14 for the Bucks, who opened on the road for the 29th consecutive year. Butlers 3-pointer tied it at 80 with 4:40 to play and the Bucks then took their first lead of the game on John Hensons free throw with 3:13 remaining. New York went back ahead on Chandlers follow dunk, then Anthony had a tip-in and a basket in the lane to make it 86-81 with 1:14 to go. O.J. Mayo knocked down a jumper before another basket by Chandler and a layup by Felton closed out a game that looked as if it would be an easy victory in the first half -- and a welcome one with a game against Chicago on Thursday. "Theres definitely things we can learn, and like I told the guys coming into the locker room, we want too put teams away, especially, you know, youre going into a back-to-back, so you have an opportunity to rest," Chandler said.dddddddddddd"But like I say, at the end of the day, learning experience, and Id rather learn with a win than a loss." The Knicks beat Miami by 20 last year in their opener, the springboard to a 6-0 start that carried them to their first Atlantic Division title since 1994. But they got sloppy in the third quarter of this one, and without Amare Stoudemire and Sixth Man of the Year J.R. Smith, were missing a couple of players who couldve helped them get back on track offensively. Smith is suspended the first five games of the season after violating the NBAs anti-drug program. Stoudemire dressed but didnt play. Coach Mike Woodson, trying to keep Stoudemire and Kenyon Martin healthy, plans to limit their minutes and apparently not let either play on both nights of back-to-backs. Stoudemire will play Thursday and Martin will rest. Already without Luke Ridnour because of a sore back, the Bucks then lost starting point guard Brandon Knight to a strained right hamstring in the opening minutes of the game, forcing them to go a long way with rookie Nate Wolters from South Dakota State. The Bucks then managed just 13 points in the second quarter as the Knicks opened a 56-31 lead at halftime. Milwaukee had 16 turnovers and just 13 baskets in the half. "My message to the guys at the halftime was I didnt care about whether we won or lost the game, I cared about us playing the way I know were capable of playing," new Bucks coach Larry Drew said. "Thats all we did in the second half. We didnt do anything different than what weve been working on during the first day of training camp. Guys came back, overcame a 25-point deficit. Had a chance to win and just didnt make the plays at the end." cheap jerseys cheap nfl jerseys ' ' '