{"id":1748,"date":"2012-05-04T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T19:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2012-05-07T13:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:25:16","slug":"tough-draw-for-milos-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/04\/tough-draw-for-milos-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Draw for Milos in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The draw is out for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/?__utma=1.1287323160.1297543272.1336049642.1336158516.352&amp;__utmb=1.2.9.1336158516&amp;__utmc=1&amp;__utmx=-&amp;__utmz=1.1331224875.270.141.utmcsr=challenge.atpworldtour.com|utmccn=%28referral%29|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=\/atp\/user-bracket.php&amp;__utmv=-&amp;__utmk=98933406\" target=\"_blank\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a> and things aren't looking good for Milos. He has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Masculino-Singles.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">drawn<\/a> up against David Nalbandian in the first round, and should he win he would face Roger Federer in the second. Those are the kinds of opponents you would hopefully see later in a tournament, not in the opening rounds. It will be tough for Raonic to keep the claymentum going against such tough players, but he's coming in with a lot of confidence after his semi-final result in Barcelona. Hopefully we'll see Milos make another statement on the clay.<\/p>\n<p>After the performance in Barcelona, Raonic reached a career high <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Rankings\/Singles.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">singles ranking<\/a> of No.23 in the world. This is after dropping the points he earned from reaching the semi-finals in Estoril last year.<\/p>\n<p>Sportsnet ONE will have coverage of the Mutua Madrid Open starting on Monday, May 7 at 7 AM EST. It looks like they'll be reshowing matches on tape delay throughout the rest of the day, so we may able to see Raonic's match on TV. No doubt it'll be streaming online live somewhere, though.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck in Madrid, Milos. You're gonna need it. But then again, who needs luck when you get to hit with the King Of Clay:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NIvWS4S9uNk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw is out for the Mutua Madrid Open and things aren&#8217;t looking good for Milos. He has drawn up against David Nalbandian in the first round, and should he win he would face Roger Federer in the second. Those are the kinds of opponents you would hopefully see later in a tournament, not in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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\/1748"}],"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=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}