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TORONTO -- Gael Monfils of France defeated Joao Sousa of Portugal 6-3, 6-3 and fifth seed Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic beat Croatias Borna Coric 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 at the Rogers Cup on Tuesday.Despite dropping his first set, Berdych said that he wasnt concerned because it was an early break.I mean it was by my mistakes and then it was just basically trying to get used to the conditions because they were quite different, the world No. 8 said.I was just really trying to be patient with myself. Trying also to look for the opportunities. And thats what paid off.Tournament No. 2 seed Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland faced Russian Mikhail Youzhny in the late Tuesday match.Taiwans Yen-Hsun Lu admits hes a bit nervous about facing hometown star Milos Raonic on Wednesday, but hes banking on the fourth-seeded Canadian having a few butterflies too.Lu, who advanced to the second round on Tuesday with a 7-5, 6-3 victory over Alexander Zverev of Germany, will have few backers among the expected capacity crowd at the 12,500-seat Aviva Centre.All the spectators against you is very tough, Lu said. But, I mean, this is what he should get because he comes from the country and hes one of the best players right now.Later Tuesday, Canadas Vasek Pospisil defeated Jeremy Chardy in first-round action after the Frenchman retired with a right foot injury.Chardy started to favor his foot after Pospisil went up 30-0 in the first game of the second set. Chardy called for the trainer and waited several minutes before deciding that he couldnt go on.Pospisil won the first set 7-6 (3). The Vancouver product will face Monfils in the second round.Raonic, who grew up in the Toronto suburb of Thornhill, will be playing his first match since the Wimbledon mens final where he lost to Andy Murray.Lu says that in order to beat the Canadian, he will have to have a strong service game, but hes also hoping to exploit any nerves that Raonic may have as he returns home.If I can try to make more balls into the court to play, I have a little bit better chance, he said. I have to focus on my service game to stay with him and to maybe give him a little bit of pressure and waiting for him maybe a little bit getting nervous from the tensions and give me a chance.Raonic, who had a bye in the first round of the Rogers Cup, is 2-0 against the 32-year-old Lu, with his last victory coming in 2014 in Monte Carlo. Lu said hes noticed a lot of improvement in Raonics game recently.He getting more stable from the baseline, Lu said. He plays all different kind of game. He can come in, hes making (things) difficult.In mens doubles action, Vancouvers Philip Bester and Adil Shamasdin of Toronto got past world No. 1 singles player Novak Djokovic and Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia 7-5, 4-6, 10-2.Tied at 30-30 in the second set, Bester double-faulted to give the Serbs break point before double faulting again to give Djokovic and Zimonjic the set.I wanted to keep things interesting for the crowd, Bester joked. Thats just sport, thats tennis, that kind of stuff happens to me, it happens to everybody and as soon as we went to the change-over, the most important thing for me personally was to have a short memory about it and also to communicate with Adil that I was ready to move on to the tiebreaker.Bester and Shamasdin will next play South Africas Raven Klaasen and American Rajeev Ram.Lu, ranked 70th in the world, improved to 3-3 on the ATP World Tour circuit this season with his victory over Zverev. He made headlines at Wimbledon in 2010 when he beat American Andy Roddick in an epic five-set thriller.The Taiwanese player was ousted in the first round of the Rogers Cup last year by Pospisil.After right elbow surgery delayed the start of his season, hes gone on to lose to Djokovic in the first round of Roland Garros and Murray in the second round of Wimbledon.Lu says hell have to stop Raonics weapon -- his serve -- if hes going to be successful on center court against the world No. 7.Hes one of the best players right now, Lu said. For me, I really need to stay very strong in my serve and hope I can always catch him and give him some pressure.Jermaine Marrow Jersey . "I dont know that were close," said general manager Alex Anthopoulos. "I just think, right now, the acquisition cost just doesnt work for us right now. I dont know if I can quantify how far off or things like that that they might be but I would say we continue to have dialogue. 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Li Yingjie, also of China, took the bronze.This is one of my hardest races because Im going from the 100 to the marathon, and so to really focus on this race is quite difficult because Im going against girls who just do the [100 meters] and the [400 meters], and I knew it was going to be tough because you have Team China, who is amazing at the 1 and the 4, McFadden said.I had a bad start, but my execution was amazing, and I really just raced with my heart and took in emotions from the crowd.Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, with spina bifida that left her paralyzed below the waist, McFadden started using a wheelchair at age 6 after beiing adopted by an American woman, Deborah McFadden.ddddddddddddThe 27-year-old McFadden graduated from Illinois, where she joined the wheelchair basketball and wheelchair track teams, making her Paralympic debut in 2004. With this silver, McFadden is a 12-time medalist.Since hauling in three golds at the 2012 London Paralympics, McFadden had won every race in which she had competed until Friday. Her 20-win streak included three consecutive wheelchair marathon grand slams and a sweep of the International Paralympic Committee world championship in all six of her individual events, becoming the first woman to accomplish the feat.McFadden won bronze in the 100 in London and silver in Athens.With this silver Im still happy, because in London I got bronze. Im moving up in the ranks, she said. I know I can do the next couple races, so I just have to stay relaxed, stay calm and really just believe in myself. ' ' '