{"id":1778,"date":"2012-05-25T10:27:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2012-05-28T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T14:54:45","slug":"french-open-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/french-open-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

MILOS UPDATE:<\/strong> Raonic is up third on Court 17 against Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo on Monday. Since this is not a TV show court, there will be no way to watch the match live, streamed or otherwise.<\/p>\n

The draw<\/a> for Roland Garros<\/a> has been released and we know who Milos Raonic will be facing in the first round: Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo (ESP). He is currently ranked No. 73 in the world and has only played in clay court tournaments all year. Raonic has never faced Ramirez Hidalgo, whose latest result was a first round loss a couple of weeks ago in Bordeaux, France.<\/p>\n

Milos could either meet Jesse Levine (USA) or Benjamin Becker (GER) in the second round. The first seed Milos could face should he get through the early rounds is Juan Monaco (13). Raonic is in Rafael Nadal's quarter of the draw, who is seeded No.2. They could meet in the fourth round, but a lot would have to go right for that to happen. Andy Murray is also in the same half as Nadal and Raonic.<\/p>\n

Frank Dancevic and Vasek Pospisil are both in the main draw and will face Martin Klizan (SVK) and Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) respectively. They are in the opposite half of the draw with Djokovic and Federer.<\/p>\n

On the Women's side, Stephanie Dubois will face Shahar Peer (ISR) in the first round, and Aleksandra Wozniak is still waiting for her opponent to be decided in qualifying. Heidi El Tabakh has also qualified for the main draw, making it a total of 6 Canadians in the hunt for the major singles title.<\/p>\n

In Canada, TSN<\/a> (and TSN2) will have complete coverage of the French Open starting on Sunday at 5:00 AM EST<\/strong>. You can find the full TV Schedule here<\/a>. Since TSN will (most likely) be presenting the ESPN feed, it's hard to say if we'll get to see Raonic at all in the early rounds. Though it is possible TSN.ca could provide a live stream for Raonic's match and other matches involving Canadians.<\/p>\n

-multi<\/p>\n

EDIT: Vasek Pospisil takes to the court in the morning\u00a0versus Roger-Vasselin at approx 6:30 EST.\u00a0 It is a televised court (court 2) but I'm not sure if TSN will carry many (or any?) of the extra streams online at TSN.ca as ESPN does (if not, google \"tennis live streaming\").\u00a0 The unfortunate part is that we're stuck with those brutal American commentators again (I just watched an ESPN \"preview\" on TSN's website where the guy pronounced Djokovic's name wrong over and over again, but then again, he's only #1 in the world - I'd hate to hear them try to pronounce Milos' name!). --wacb<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MILOS UPDATE: Raonic is up third on Court 17 against Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo on Monday. Since this is not a TV show court, there will be no way to watch the match live, streamed or otherwise. The draw for Roland Garros has been released and we know who Milos Raonic will be facing in the […]<\/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\/1778"}],"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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}