{"id":1427,"date":"2012-02-11T21:36:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-02-11T21:36:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T01:36:33","slug":"france-takes-lead-in-davis-cup-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/11\/france-takes-lead-in-davis-cup-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"France takes lead in Davis Cup tie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The French team of Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra defeated Canadians Milos Raonic and Daniel Nestor in straight sets, 7-6(1) 7-6(2) 6-3. France has a 2-1 lead over Canada in their Davis Cup World Group tie<\/a>.<\/h5>\n

Canada's hopes of winning the tie were dealt a serious blow with the loss in the doubles rubber. This now puts tremendous pressure of Milos Raonic in his upcoming match with Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Sunday. If Raonic was able to pull out a big win over the No.6 player in the world, then there is still the possibilty of Gael Monfils stepping in for the final rubber. The tie isn't over yet, but it's going to be quite an uphill battle from here on out for Team Canada.<\/p>\n

The first two sets of the match were rather close with no breaks of serve. Yet France was able to run away with both tiebreaks to take a two set lead in the rubber. Milos wasn't at his best and was having trouble with the first serve. Nestor and Raonic did well to stay in the match despite their overall low first serve percentage. The French team was just more consistent on the big points, which was most apparent in the tiebreaks.<\/p>\n

The first break of serve of the match came early in the third and it went France's way. Canada couldn't get things to swing their way and was unable to get back on serve. All the momentum seemed to be with Benneteau and Llodra who were bolstered by French fans that had more to cheer about than the home crowd. France broke again to win the rubber, disappointing a lot of Canadian fans in the process.<\/p>\n

Sunday will be a big day for singles, but it's sudden death for Team Canada. Raonic will certainly be in tough against Tsonga. That match starts at 4:30PM EST and will be live on Sportsnet. The fifth rubber will likely feature Vasek Pospisil and either Julien Benneteau or Gael Monfils. If Tsonga beats Raonic, however, it could be a dead rubber and will be a best-of-three set match instead of best-of-five.<\/p>\n

It's crunch time, Canada.<\/p>\n

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The French team of Julien Benneteau and Michael Llodra defeated Canadians Milos Raonic and Daniel Nestor in straight sets, 7-6(1) 7-6(2) 6-3. France has a 2-1 lead over Canada in their Davis Cup World Group tie. Canada’s hopes of winning the tie were dealt a serious blow with the loss in the doubles rubber. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}