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Eighth seed Raonic became only the second Canadian to reach
the last eight at Melbourne Park, nearly 50 years after Michael
Belkin achieved the feat in 1968.
In a battle of big servers, Lopez coolly saved two match points
in the fourth set tiebreak before sending the contest into a
decider but double-faulted in the eighth game of the final set
to hand Raonic the initiative.
Raonic closed it out on the third match point when Lopez pushed
a shot wide. The Canadian advances to play the winner between
top seed Novak Djokovic and Gilles Muller for a place in the
semi-finals.
(Reporting by Ian Ransom; Editing by John O'Brien)
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