Milos Raonic advanced to the quarter-finals for the second straight year at the Thailand Open in Bangkok, an ATP World Tour 250 event. As the tournament’s third seed, Raonic received an opening round bye and began his title campaign with a 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-4 win over Australia’s Marinko Matosevic in round two.  Raonic hit 21 aces in the victory and avenges the loss he suffered at the hands of Matosevic during the summer hard court season in Washington.

In the final eight on Friday, Raonic will face sixth-seeded Spaniard Feliciano Lopez in what will be his fourth quarter-final of the season. The 22-year-old Canadian defeated Lopez in four sets en route to reaching the Round of 16 at the U.S. Open last month.

One year ago Allie Kiick would have loved to have made her Party Rock Open debut as a 17-year-old qualifier, but instead was stuck in Albuquerque, N.M., unable to travel due to a serious infection in her lungs that caused severe dehydration.

Kiick, the daughter of former Miami Dolphins fullback Jim Kiick, is making the most out of her first appearance in Las Vegas this week as the qualifier from Plantation, Fla., won her fourth match in as many days. On Wednesday at the Darling Tennis Center, Kiick beat Sacha Jones of Australia, 6-2. 6-2.

Eugenie Bouchard notched up her second career Top 10 win on Wednesday to advance to her fourth quarter-final of the season at the Toray Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo, Japan. A day after taking out fellow rising star, world no.13 Sloane Stephens of the United States in three sets, Bouchard was dominant en route to a 7-5, 6-2 victory over no. 10 ranked Serbian Jelena Jankovic to reach the final eight.

The opening set was played evenly until Bouchard broke serve in the eleventh game and followed up with a comfortable service hold to take the early lead. The 19-year-old broke Jankovic’s serve early and often in the second set thanks to her trademark aggressive play to secure a straight sets victory in just over an hour against the former World No. 1.

US Open National Playoff winner Mayo Hibi continued her impressive form with a marathon first-round win at the Party Rock Open on Tuesday. The 17-year-old from Irvine, Calif., upset No. 7-seeded Sesil Karatantcheva of Kazakhstan, 7-5, 6-7 (3), 6-3 in three hours and 38 minutes to kick off main-draw play at the Darling Tennis Center.

“Every point was a grind,” said Hibi, who won her first $50,000 event earlier this year in Sacramento. “She was so solid from the baseline. You really don’t know what to expect.”

The Party Rock Open main draw kicks off on Tuesday under the lights featuring a slew of players with impressive Wimbledon credentials. Two-time Wimbledon quarterfinalist Tamira Paszek will get the night-match action started at 6 p.m. on stadium court versus 2012 Party Rock Open semifinalist Adriana Perez from Venezuela.

That match will be followed by Wimbledon upset specialist Michelle Larcher de Brito, who earlier this year shocked world No. 3 Maria Sharapova in the second round at Wimbledon in straight sets.

The International Tennis Federation announced today that Marin Cilic has been found to have committed an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (presence of a Prohibited Substance in a Player’s Sample).

Mr Cilic, a 24-year-old player from Croatia, provided a urine sample in association with his participation in the BMW Open event in Munich, Germany. That sample was sent to the WADA-accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada for analysis, and was found to contain nikethamide, which is a Prohibited Substance under section S6 (Stimulants) of the 2013 WADA List of Prohibited Substances and Prohibited Methods, and is therefore also prohibited under the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (the “Programme”). Mr Cilic was therefore charged with an Anti-Doping Rule Violation under Article 2.1 of the Programme.