{"id":1078,"date":"2012-01-06T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T00:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2012-01-06T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T00:09:21","slug":"match-preview-milos-raonic-vs-nicolas-almagro-7-january-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/06\/match-preview-milos-raonic-vs-nicolas-almagro-7-january-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Match Preview – Milos Raonic .vs. Nicolas Almagro – 7 January 2012 at Chennai Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Match Time and TV coverage in Canada<\/h3>\n

Unfortunately for those of us who like to sleep in here in North America, Milos' match tomorrow with Nico Almagro is first up, at 5 PM local time (India Standard Time) at the Chennai Open.<\/p>\n

Sportsnet has indicated that they will be airing the semi-finals, and potentially also the finals.\u00a0 Their coverage at <\/strong>sportsnet.ca<\/a> (and presumably at the same time on TV) starts at 6:30 AM Eastern (EST)<\/strong><\/span> tomorrow, Saturday, 7 Jan, and Sunday, 8 Jan.\u00a0 The digital \"cable guide\" is not updated yet but they were scheduled to show Hopman Cup action tomorrow morning anyway...<\/p>\n

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Nicolas Almagro<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a> (a few pics from Chennai)<\/p>\n

Nico Almagro has only had to play one match (the quarterfinals today) at this tournament, after receiving a bye in the first round and a \"walk-over\" in the second round.\u00a0 He is also entered in a doubles team that's no longer in the running...\u00a0 His official tournament profile is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nico Almagro's star is on the rise as well as Milos'.\u00a0 A few years older at age 26, he is currently ranked #10, just slightly down from a career-high #9 that he achieved last year.<\/p>\n

Almagro and Raonic have not met on the ATP courts as adversaries, but they did play in two doubles tournaments last year on the clay courts of Barcelona and Monte Carlo.\u00a0 Unfortunately, these two endeavours ended short, with first-round losses to Dolgopolov\/Malisse and Gasquet\/Ljubicic respectively.<\/p>\n

--wacb<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Match Time and TV coverage in Canada Unfortunately for those of us who like to sleep in here in North America, Milos’ match tomorrow with Nico Almagro is first up, at 5 PM local time (India Standard Time) at the Chennai Open. Sportsnet has indicated that they will be airing the semi-finals, and potentially also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078"}],"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=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}