{"id":1211,"date":"2012-01-11T02:57:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T06:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2012-01-11T03:05:38","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T07:05:38","slug":"fish-def-raonic-6-1-6-2-tsonga-up-next-for-milos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/fish-def-raonic-6-1-6-2-tsonga-up-next-for-milos\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish def. Raonic 6-1, 6-2 &#8211; Tsonga up next for Milos&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mardy Fish has just defeated Milos Raonic in the first round of the AAMI Classic in Kooyong, Australia.\u00a0 The final score was 6-1, 6-2.\u00a0 I dozed off during the Tsonga match after a long day (had a 6AM flight this morning from Newfoundland) to wake up to Fish's victory speech, where he praised Raonic and said he was going to \"make a lot of money out here\".<\/p>\n<p>We get a preview of a potential Davis Cup match-up in February in Vancouver as Tsonga will be Raonic's next opponent in the consolidation round.\u00a0 Jo-Wilfred Tsonga also lost today, defeated by Jurgen Melzer 6-4, 6-3.\u00a0 The wind and conditions on court did not suit Tsonga well.\u00a0 As I was able to watch most of his match, it was evident his high ball toss was affected, as well as his ability to hit the lines precisely.\u00a0 He seemed very frustrated with the up-to-70km\/h winds.\u00a0 I imagine Milos suffered similarly with his style of play.<\/p>\n<p>As Roddick starts his serve in the first game of his match versus Monfils with ace as I write, I'm wondering if he can keep that up against the wind...\u00a0 The winner of that match will face Tomic in the semi-final, while the loser will face Berdych in the consolidation round.\u00a0 It seems each of the exhibition matches so far today went opposite to my expectations...<\/p>\n<p>--wacb<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mardy Fish has just defeated Milos Raonic in the first round of the AAMI Classic in Kooyong, Australia.\u00a0 The final score was 6-1, 6-2.\u00a0 I dozed off during the Tsonga match after a long day (had a 6AM flight this morning from Newfoundland) to wake up to Fish&#8217;s victory speech, where he praised Raonic and [&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\/1211"}],"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=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}