{"id":1769,"date":"2012-05-12T11:31:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-12T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2012-05-12T11:31:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T14:31:29","slug":"tough-road-for-raonic-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/12\/tough-road-for-raonic-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Road for Raonic In Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/Share\/event%20draws.aspx?Year=2012&amp;Draw=ms\" target=\"_blank\">draw<\/a> for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rome masters<\/a> is out and Milos hasn't been given any breaks. His first round opponent is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Players\/Top-Players\/Florian-Mayer.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Florian Mayer<\/a> (GER), whom he has never faced and is currently ranked one spot lower than Raonic at No.24. But the headline here is that Milos could potentially face Rafael Nadal in the second round if he is able to defeat Mayer. It was No.3 Federer last week in Madrid, and now we could see him up against No.2 Nadal this week in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Raonic hasn't played Nadal since Tokyo last year. Their other previous meeting was also on the hardcourt in Tokyo in 2010. Nadal won boths of those matches. Given Milos' recent clay court success, I cannot think of a better test for him than Rafa. I know I'm not the only one hoping that this match gets to happen, and all Raonic has to get past Mayer in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for the Rome masters is out and Milos hasn&#8217;t been given any breaks. His first round opponent is Florian Mayer (GER), whom he has never faced and is currently ranked one spot lower than Raonic at No.24. But the headline here is that Milos could potentially face Rafael Nadal in the second round [&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\/1769"}],"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=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}