{"id":1720,"date":"2012-04-14T16:16:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T19:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2012-04-16T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T14:04:22","slug":"milos-in-monte-carlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/milos-in-monte-carlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos in Monte Carlo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monte-carlorolexmasters.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters<\/a> event is about to get underway and we will finally see Milos Roanic back in action. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monte-carlorolexmasters.com\/Share\/Event-Draws.aspx?Year=2012&amp;Draw=ms\" target=\"_blank\">draw<\/a> is out and Raonic will face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Players\/Top-Players\/Albert-Montanes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Montanes<\/a> (ESP) in the first round.<\/h5>\n<p>The two have yet to meet on the tour, and Montanes hasn't played much since the South American clay court swing where he failed to advance past the first round in his last three tournaments. His best result so far this year was when he reached the quarters in Chile and lost to Juan Monaca in three sets.<\/p>\n<p>Should Milos get through the first round, he will have Janko Tipsarevic waiting for him. Tipsarevic is seeded No.7 and has a first round bye. As you recall, Raonic won his first title of the the year by defeating the Serbian in the finals of Chennai in three tight sets. The clay courts in Monte Carlo are a far cry from the big-serve-friendly hard courts. We'll have to wait and see if Raonic can get through Montanes first.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tvschedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sportsnet ONE<\/a> will have coverage of the tournament beginning on Monday, April 16, at 4 PM EST. Not sure if they will be able to show Milos' first round match live.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Milos Raonic vs Albert Montanes will be the last match on Court Central after Benneteau vs Granollers today (Monday). They are currently on court and it looks like they're going to a third set. No word if the Raonic match will be live on TV, so check your favourite online streaming service!<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters event is about to get underway and we will finally see Milos Roanic back in action. The draw is out and Raonic will face Albert Montanes (ESP) in the first round. The two have yet to meet on the tour, and Montanes hasn&#8217;t played much since the South American clay court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}