Davis Cup Weekend – Quarter-Finals – Canada vs. Italy in Vancouver « Milos Raonic

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Davis Cup Weekend – Quarter-Finals – Canada vs. Italy in Vancouver

UPDATE (7 Apr) : Milos made quick work of Andreas Seppi today to send Canada to Davis Cup semi-finals. He did drop a set, but he seemed dominant throughout most of the match. SFs will be played in Serbia in September.

Check the @MilosRaonicBlog twitter feed for some pics and other info from today!

UPDATE (6 Apr) : Nestor and Pospisil won a long, 4.5-hour-or-so match against Fognini and Bracciali. 6-3, 6-4, 3-6, 3-6, 15-13. What a match! Singles tomorrow afternoon, where Milos and Pospisil will try to take Canada to semi-finals! An win by either Canadian tomorrow would get the job done and make further Canadian tennis history...

Milos will be up first in front of the Vancouver crowd against Andreas Seppi, currently ranked at career-high #18 and Italian #1.

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UPDATE (5 Apr): Pospisil went down to Seppi. Raonic takes out Seppi. Canada's tied with Italy going into tomorrow's doubles match with Nestor/Pospisil trying to give #TeamCanada the lead. Raonic to face Seppi up first on Sunday, then Pospisil will face Fognini. Good (historic) weekend for Canadian tennis!

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- Dancevic is out with a minor knee injury, Jesse Levigne replaces him as the spare.

- Pospisil playing singles first on Friday vs Seppi, then doubles w/ Nestor on Saturday, then scheduled for reverse singles on Sunday vs Seppi as the final match of the tie.

- Raonic will play Friday and Sunday as well, vs Fognini and Seppi respectively.

- SportsNet ONE will have coverage on TV all weekend, and it will be on RogersAnyplaceTV.com and www.itfteamevents.tv (official Davis Cup internet streamer).

- See their article here : bit.ly/Z4SnoY

- Link to article from DavisCup.ca below... Canada is ready and able to make further Davis Cup history and advance to Semi-Finals! Can't wait.

http://m.daviscup.com/en/news/article.aspx?id=142674

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Daniel
April 9th, 2013 - 09:21

Milos just tweeted a couple of minutes ago that he has arrived in Monaco and for him it’s nice to see the Mediterranean Sea.

Milos lost to Montanes in the 2nd Round in Monte Carlo last year so there is hope for a better Result this time.
- Daniel
  April 9th, 2013 - 09:36
  
  And just in case anyone doesn’t know: Our Guy has now his own Website:
  
  http://milosraonicofficial.com/
  - wacb
    April 9th, 2013 - 18:42
    
    Yup, saw that a while back. Not much there unfortunately… I like that his scheduled is published, that’s useful.
    
    I had asked that we work together but they weren’t interested in me helping with the site at all, unless I gave them this one… Which I didn’t necessarily think was fair. Then they didn’t answer my emails…
Daniel
April 8th, 2013 - 12:08

Nice Bonus for Milos: He did get 140 Ranking Points for his 2 DC wins. He’s back into Top 15 today.

Nice Bonus for Canada: The Team now has accumulated 8.894,38 Points. That will be good enough to get seeded when the DC World Group Draw for 2014 is made in October which means that we won’t have to face such tough Opponents like Czech Republic, Spain, USA, etc. in the 1st Round. Canada is # 7 in the DC World Rankings.
- wacb
  April 8th, 2013 - 23:10
  
  Good point Daniel, thanks. Hadn’t realized the win had guaranteed seeding for next year. That’s great. I hope Nestor is able to stay healthy, though the doubles results haven’t been that great until this weekend’s tie, I think Canada will need him to play at his best to have hopes of getting any further than we have this year!
  - Daniel
    April 9th, 2013 - 08:24
    
    I hope Nestor get healthy. Agreeing with you on that. Hats off to him for playing the Doubles in the midst of a calf injury sustained in Miami. Unbelievable effort from him.
    
    Milos is Monte Carlo bound as far as I read from his Twitter. Novak Djokovic might not be able to play there. Same for Querrey and to lesser extend Haas if he reaches Semifinal or Final in Houston.
TOM
April 8th, 2013 - 00:58

I think Milos and the rest of the team, in particularly Milos as he is in the upper echelon of world caliber,now will draw confidence and maturity from this exceptional Davis Cup win over a very tough Italian team.
We should see the positive results in the next few weeks.
Daniel
April 5th, 2013 - 23:13

Milos won against Fognini 6-4, 7-6 (4), 7-5 and has levelled the Tie with Italy at one Rubber apiece.
- wacb
  April 5th, 2013 - 23:50
  
  Can’t wait for the match versus Seppi!
  - Daniel
    April 6th, 2013 - 08:47
    
    Milos well EAT Seppi as breakfast on Sunday. Have you seen how weak Seppi was against Pospisil?
    - wacb
      April 6th, 2013 - 23:16
      
      I am very optimistic as well, but he is a top-20 player currently at the height of his career ranking of 18. It has potential to be a good match, especially given the stakes for both players. I still think it’s very much Milos’ match to lose.
      - Daniel
        April 7th, 2013 - 09:53
        
        Agreeing with you. When Milos steps on this particular Surface he’s just a different Player. I hope he doesn’t get too nervous.
      - wacb
        April 7th, 2013 - 23:01
        
        Didn’t seem to have any jitters today. Made us Canadians proud! Can’t wait for Monte Carlo, I hope he’s able to make a good transition onto clay, I expect he’ll work on that for the next 1.5-2 weeks before he has to play.
Daniel
April 5th, 2013 - 17:59

Canadas No 2 Player Vasek Pospisil has just won the 1st Set against Andreas Seppi 7-5. Keep going Vashy.
Daniel
April 4th, 2013 - 21:54

The Canadians got the best possible Draw:

Vasek Pospisil will play 1st against Andreas Seppi followed by Milos against Fabio Fognini.

Win or lose Vasek can rest for Doubles. The H2H between Vasek and Seppi is 1-1.

Fognini meanwhile has lest rest as he’ll will be chosen for Doubles Action against Vasek and Daniel Nestor.