{"id":1771,"date":"2012-05-13T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T20:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1771"},"modified":"2012-05-14T10:17:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T13:17:17","slug":"raonic-loses-to-mayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/13\/raonic-loses-to-mayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic loses to Mayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>There will be no match with Rafael Nadal in the second round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internazionalibnlditalia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rome Masters<\/a> this week. Florian Mayer defeated Milos Raonic in straight sets today, 7-6(5) 6-4.<\/h5>\n<p>The first set was about as close as it could possibly get. There were no break points to speak of and the only thing separating the two was a single mini-break in the tiebreaker that went Mayer's way. The second set was a slightly different story. It was still close until the latter stages of the set, but this time we had some break point chances. Unfortunately, Milos couldn't save the one he faced and was unable to convert against Mayer. The first serve for Raonic dropped off significantly in the second which ultimately allowed Mayer into more of his service games.<\/p>\n<p>So the meeting with Nadal in the second round isn't going to happen. With Raonic taking the early exit from Rome, we'll have to wait until the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">French Open<\/a> later this month before we see him in action again. Since his ranking will be around 24 (give or take), Raonic probably won't have to face a seeded player until perhaps the third round. Of course, we'll know for sure when the draw is announced on Friday, May 25.<\/p>\n<p>A disappointing loss today to Mayer today, which I guess you could call an upset since he is ranked one spot lower than Raonic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Milos is just one spot outside of the Top 20 at No.21 after the new rankings were calculated today, which is a new career high! He's just 10 points behind No.20 Stanislas Wawrinka. Raonic will be Top 20 (and beyond) in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the French Open!<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be no match with Rafael Nadal in the second round of the Rome Masters this week. Florian Mayer defeated Milos Raonic in straight sets today, 7-6(5) 6-4. The first set was about as close as it could possibly get. There were no break points to speak of and the only thing separating 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\/1771"}],"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=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1774,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}