{"id":1506,"date":"2012-02-23T00:23:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T04:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2012-02-23T14:21:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T18:21:15","slug":"seeds-fail-to-sprout-in-milos-half-of-the-draw-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/02\/23\/seeds-fail-to-sprout-in-milos-half-of-the-draw-in-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeds fail to sprout in Milos&#8217; half of the draw in the first round at Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The path to a second straight final in Memphis is looking much better for Milos Raonic.<\/p>\n<p>Our 4th seed Canuck started the tournament in Memphis on the same half of the draw as 2nd-seeded Andy Roddick, 5th-seeded Alex Bolgomolov Jr., and 6th-seeded Julien Benneteau.<\/p>\n<p>As we watch (around 11PM Eeastern via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protennislive.com\/frameset.asp?year=2012&amp;wkno=8&amp;lang=en&amp;tabno=2&amp;eventid=m003&amp;ref=www.atpworldtour.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">score-ticker<\/a>, as this round isn't televised or streaming) Milos take the first set 6-2, I'm realizing that all the seeds listed above have already been eliminated by X. Malisse, O. Rochus, and Phil Petzschner respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Milos is the only seeded player left in his half of the draw.<\/p>\n<p>On the other side of the draw: Bernard Tomic, the 8th seed, was defeated by Ivan Dodig, but 1st-seeded John Isner, 3rd-seeded Radek Stepanek, and 7th-seeded Kevin Anderson remain, as they were successful in their first round bouts.<\/p>\n<p>--wacb<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: Milos Raonic will face Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) in the 2nd round tonight. He is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphistennis.com\/userfiles\/file\/2012\/OP\/OP_2_23_12.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">scheduled<\/a> to play after Isner \/ Young, which begins at 7:00PM CST.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Sportsnet ONE will have live coverage of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.memphistennis.com\/home\" target=\"_blank\">Regions Morgan Keegan Championships<\/a> starting tonight at 7PM EST. It is unclear if it will be streamed online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The path to a second straight final in Memphis is looking much better for Milos Raonic. Our 4th seed Canuck started the tournament in Memphis on the same half of the draw as 2nd-seeded Andy Roddick, 5th-seeded Alex Bolgomolov Jr., and 6th-seeded Julien Benneteau. As we watch (around 11PM Eeastern via the score-ticker, as this [&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\/1506"}],"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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1508,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}