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. Custom Juventus Jerseys . Only three players drafted by NHL clubs were included on the Czech selection camp roster on Wednesday. Those players were Dallas Stars 2012 first-rounder Radek Faksa, Winnipeg Jets 2013 fourth-rounder Jan Kostalek and Phoenix Coyotes 2012 seventh-rounder Marek Langhamer. Miralem Pjanic Jersey . 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General manager Jay Feaster has three first-round selections among his nine at the NHL entry draft June 30 in Newark, N.J. According to capgeek.com, Calgary currently has about $19 million in cap space -- $5.8 million more if goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff retires -- to work with when unrestricted free agency opens July 5. The Flames have not made the playoffs in four years, so there is considerable pressure on Feaster to maximize these opportunities and turn the team around. "I dont know that its feeling the pressure as much as it is recognizing the importance of it," Feaster said Friday at Scotiabank Saddledome. "The importance of this draft is not lost on the organization and it certainly isnt lost on the management of the organization." Calgary has the tools and the motivation to be a mover and a shaker both at the draft and in free agency. Other than the two teams currently involved in the Stanley Cup final, competition between NHL clubs moves off the ice into scouting and negotiations. Its no less intense, says Feaster. "Theres no question its big-time competition off the ice," Feaster said. "Yes, as a franchise, we have to win. "I feel very good about our preparedness level." Calgary has the No. 6 pick via the draft lottery as well as No. 22 and No. 28 from trading Jarome Iginla to Pittsburgh and Jay Bouwmeester to St. Louis this past season. "We have had extensive conversations with teams about moving up into the top five in the draft," Feaster said. "We at least know which teams are willing to do something and if they are, what it would take to do that, and also which teams are not willing to do that. "The one thing I believe with the pick at six, we want to get a player who has the opportunity to come in here right now and compete for a job. We really like this draft. We think at 22 and 28, were going to be happy with the players who are still on the board." This will be Feasters third draft as GM of the Flames. Calgary traded their 14th pick last year and dropped to No. 21 to gain a second-rounder. The Flames selected college centre Mark Jankowski in the first round and defenceman Patrick Sieloff at No. 42. Calgary chose left-winger Sven Baertschi at No. 13 in 2011. Baertschi had three goals and seven assists in 20 games for the Flames and spent the rest of the lockout-shortened season with their AHL team in Abbotsford, B.C. The Flames havent had multiple first-round picks since 1976, when the Flames took defenceman Dave Shand at No. 8 and forward Harold Phillipoff at No. 10 Calgarys current needds are size and talent at centre, more size on their third defensive pairing, plus a shooting right-winger to replace Iginla, Feaster said.dddddddddddd "We have to get bigger and we have to get harder to play against," the GM said. Feaster fought the term "rebuild" as he traded away the teams captain and top defenceman during the season. He joked Friday that via "therapy" hes accepted that rebuilding is what Flames are doing. His intention, however, is to make that process as short and as painless as possible. "I dont think there is a quick fix," Feaster said. "We have to do a better job as an organization in drafting. We think that over the last three drafts or so, weve done a better job, but (theres) not enough players that are pushing through right now. We have to a better job developing players. Once we draft them, we do the right things to develop them. "We have to continue to add assets. We cant keep trading away high draft picks and trying for that solution that gets us through and gets us to the playoffs at the expense of the foundation." Feaster hinted hes willing to package current Flames into draft-day transactions. "When you finish where we have the last three, four years, our list of untouchable players is relatively small," he said. "No, I dont want to go into who those untouchables are." Kiprusoff, 36, has yet to announce his intentions for next season. The Finnish goaltender didnt waive his no-trade clause to join Iginla and Bouwmeester on the move. Kiprusoff has one year remaining on a contract that pays him $1.5 million in salary, but counts $5.8 million against the 2013-14 cap of $64.3 million. "I talked with him just this week," Feaster said. "Were going to continue to give him time. I think if we had to say You have to make a decision today Im not sure hes ready to play right now. "Weve made sure he knows well wait for him to be sure of what he wants to do." Feaster confirmed that defenceman Anton Babchuk and forward Roman Cervenka will play in the KHL next season. Both were eligible for unrestricted free agency. Cervenka had 20 points in 44 games in his one season in Calgary. 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