BASEL, Switzerland - Fourth-seeded Canadian Milos Raonic hit 12 aces and saved all five break points he faced as he beat Steve Johnson of the United States 7-6 (4), 6-4 in the first round of the Swiss Indoors on Tuesday.Johnson, who did not face a break point in the first set, saved one on his opening service game in the second set, where he also missed four chances to break Raonics serve.Raonic, from Thornhill, Ont., ended a three-match losing skid by breaking Johnsons serve for the first time in the 10th game. The Canadian will face American Donald Young in the next round.Raonic defeated Young in their only previous meeting last summer in Washington.Meanwhile, eighth-seeded Ivo Karlovic had 23 aces as he advanced with a 7-6 (4), 6-3 win against Lukas Rosol. Vancouvers Vasek Pospisil was scheduled to play his first-round match against Finlands Jarkko Nieminen later Tuesday.Raonic has struggled of late after battling a virus that sapped his strength and limited his energy. But the Canadian came through in the first-set tiebreaker and finished with 12 aces.I managed to stick around in that first set, Raonic said. I made the most of the opportunities I had in the breaker. I felt I was playing better and better, but I need to get significantly better for my next match. But I feel like Im on the right track.Karlovic won 95 per cent of his first-serve points and next plays Frenchman Kenny De Schepper, who beat Argentinas Federico Delbonis 7-6 (3), 7-5.In other first-round action, German Benjamin Becker needed just over one hour to breeze past qualifier Gastao Elias of Portugal 6-3, 6-2. He next faces either third-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland or Kazakhstans Mikhail Kukushkin, who played later Tuesday.Croatias Ivan Dodig needed nearly three hours to get the better of Swiss wild card Marco Chiudinelli 6-4, 6-7 (7), 6-4 and next plays seventh-seeded David Goffin of Belgium.Top-seeded Roger Federer and No. 2 Rafael Nadal, who struggled with appendicitis earlier this month in Shanghai, are in second-round action on Wednesday.Federer, a recent winner in Shanghai, faces Luxembourgs Gilles Muller and Nadal takes on unheralded Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert, a qualifier ranked 120th.Raonic is working to recover his position in the race to reach the eight-man year-end final next month in London. After losing matches in Tokyo, Shanghai and Moscow, the ninth-ranked Canadian fell to 10th in the points race after being passed by Andy Murray and David Ferrer.While he would love to do well in his first appearance in Basel, Raonic said next weeks Paris Masters — with 1,000 points on offer — will be a key event.———With files from The Canadian Press. Authentic Daniel Carr Jersey . It led to his downfall on Tuesday. The Major League Soccer club fired Rennie after a second straight up-and-down season that saw the Whitecaps start strong before limping across the finish line. Authentic Cody Eakin Jersey . Osasunas Alvaro Cejudo drove the ball onto the crossbar in the fifth minute and his team squandered several long-range strikes before he was denied one-on-one by goalkeeper Jaime Jimenez in the 50th. http://www.cheapgoldenknightsjerseysauthentic.com/?tag=authentic-alex-tuch-jersey . The two-time Olympic halfpipe gold medallist informed ESPN on Monday he plans to compete in Apsen, Colo. 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