Raonic ends season with loss By QMI Agency

Milos Raonic of Canada lost to unseeded American Sam Querreythe in the third round at the Paris Masters tennis tournament. (REUTERS)

Milos Raonic's slim hopes of qualifying for the ATO World Tour Finals next week in London were dashed Thursday.

Raonic, ranked 14th in the world and needing a run deep into the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris to qualify for the year-end tourney, lost in the third round 6-3, 7-6(1) to unseeded American Sam Querrey. The loss ended Raonic's season.

Earlier in the tournament Querrey knocked out second-seeded Novak Djokovic, who will end the year ranked No. 1 in the world.

It took Querrey just 71 minutes to upset 14th-seeded Raonic, who finished with 10 aces to put him over 1,000 on the year. Although Raonic saved three of four break points, he never got into a position to break back.

"I didn't create enough chances, didn't do enough with my shots," Raonic said, adding that he was feeling under the weather. "I'm sick at the moment, I don't have fever but I'm struggling with sinuses."

Querrey broke Raonic's serve in the eighth game of the first set to take control then put it away with the one-sided tie-breaker win in the second.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Janko Tipsarevic clinched the final two berths in the World Tour Finals by advancing to the quarterfinals in Paris.