article_snippet: Roger Federer plays No 3 seed Simona Halep and No 18 Jelena Jankovic faces 24th-seeded Sabine Lisicki in the semi-finals.
article_snippet: Raonic beat three-time Indian Wells champion Nadal for the first time in six career meetings, firing 18 aces and hitting 48 winners to 25 winners for Nadal, who had 22 unforced errors.
article_snippet: They dueled in the second-set tiebreaker, when Nadal held three match points but Nadal committed errors on two of They and Raonic smashed a winner on the other.
article_snippet: Raonic had plenty of chances in the tiebreaker, too, finally converting on Raonic fifth set point when Nadal netted a shot.
article_snippet: That's when Raonic earned the only break of the set, hitting a shot on the baseline that Nadal chased down but sent a backhand long.
article_snippet: Raonic dropped just one point on Raonic serve in the final game, winning on another backhand error by Nadal, who lost to a Canadian player for the first time in nine career matches.
article_snippet: Raonic will face Federer in the semi-final after beating Rafael Nadal in three sets .
highlights_snippet: Milos Raonic beat Rafael Nadal 4-6, 7-6 (10), 7-5 to set up semi-final .
  