{"id":1015,"date":"2011-10-26T12:51:30","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2011-10-26T12:54:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T15:54:48","slug":"pospisil-loses-to-seppi-at-st-petersburg-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/10\/26\/pospisil-loses-to-seppi-at-st-petersburg-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Pospisil loses to Seppi at St. Petersburg 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Vasek Pospisil (CAN)\u00a0lost a close match with Andreas Seppi (ITA) today in the first round of main draw play at the St. Petersburg Open, 5-7, 6-7(4).<\/h2>\n<p>The first set saw a break for each player in the early parts of the set, but at 5-4 when Pospisil was up\u00a0while the\u00a0players were on serve, Seppi won 3 games in a row to win the set 7-5.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was close again.\u00a0 Pospisil started with a vengance, winning the first 3 games to be up a break at 3-0.\u00a0 Seppi answered by winning the next 3 games and the match was tied again.\u00a0 For the rest of the set, the players held serve until 6-6 to force a tiebreak.\u00a0 Pospisil struck first with a mini-break to make it 2-1 after Seppi's two service attempts, but was broken right back on his first subsequent service attempt.\u00a0 Seppi was able to break Pospisil once more to make it 5-3 and consolidate it on his serve to win the tiebreak 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>The match was close, with breaks by both players in both sets and each set being decided by a single break of serve or a single mini-break of serve.\u00a0 A fine performance from Vasek in Russia...\u00a0 keep it up!<\/p>\n<p>Here are the final numbers:<br \/>\n<P><a href=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stats02974893.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stats02974893.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"stats02974893\" width=\"510\" height=\"749\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1017\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stats02974893.jpg 510w, http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/stats02974893-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> - wacb<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasek Pospisil (CAN)\u00a0lost a close match with Andreas Seppi (ITA) today in the first round of main draw play at the St. Petersburg Open, 5-7, 6-7(4). The first set saw a break for each player in the early parts of the set, but at 5-4 when Pospisil was up\u00a0while the\u00a0players were on serve, Seppi won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/1022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}