{"id":1727,"date":"2012-04-23T17:08:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2012-04-23T17:09:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:09:43","slug":"raonic-off-to-winning-start-in-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/raonic-off-to-winning-start-in-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic Off To Winning Start In Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>Milos Raonic defeated Alejandro Falla at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com\/index-torneo.php?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Barcelona Open<\/a> today, 6-4 7-6(3).<\/h5>\n<p>In the opening set, Raonic was dominant on his first serve points on the rare occasion that one landed in. He was able to avoid having to face a break point, while Falla had to defend against six during the first set. The serve wasn't quite as effective for Milos in the second, but he got the job done. Here is what he had to say about today's result:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Today was not the greatest of days, but I'm happy to put the win together and get it right. I feel like there's a lot I can do better so I'm happy to give myself another chance in the next round. Falla is a very good player. My serve was key in getting the win.\"<\/p>\n<p>(source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/Tennis\/2012\/04\/17\/Barcelona-Monday-Raonic-Advances.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">ATP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Raonic, the No.11 seed, will face the winner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Players\/A511.aspx\">Igor Andreev<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Players\/J214.aspx\">Diego Junqueira<\/a> in the second round. You can view the draw <a href=\"http:\/\/live.barcelonaopenbancsabadell.com\/atp-vs-frame.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Milos is in (2) Andy Murray's quarter of the draw and could potentially face (6) Nicolas Almagro should the seeds hold. It appears that Sportsnet will begin coverage of the Barcelona Open on Thursday, April 26 when the Round of 16 gets underway.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic defeated Alejandro Falla at the Barcelona Open today, 6-4 7-6(3). In the opening set, Raonic was dominant on his first serve points on the rare occasion that one landed in. He was able to avoid having to face a break point, while Falla had to defend against six during the first set. The [&hellip;]<\/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\/1727"}],"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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}