{"id":1791,"date":"2012-05-28T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2012-05-28T15:08:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T18:08:13","slug":"raonic-notches-first-ever-main-draw-win-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/28\/raonic-notches-first-ever-main-draw-win-at-roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic Notches First Ever Main Draw Win at Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>Milos Raonic defeated Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo in the first round of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">French Open<\/a> today, 6-4 6-2 6-2. He will face American Jesse Levine in the second round later this week.<\/h5>\n<p>Raonic got off to a sluggish start in this match. He had to save several break points throughout the majority of the first set.\u00a0 The serve percentage was abysmal at both ends of the match, finishing with 50% overall. While Ramirez Hidalgo seemed to be the better player during the first set, the match turned dramatically in Raonic's favour when he got the first break of serve. He took a 5-4 lead and served out the set without any trouble. From then on, Ramirex Hidlago almost completely went away. It was all Raonic in the final two sets as he cruised to victory and was rarely challenged along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Since the match was not played on a TV court, there was no way to stream it or watch it live. I had to rely on the live score tracker for updates. View the stats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/scores\/stats\/day7\/1160ms.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was Raonic's first win in the main draw at Roland Garros. He lost to Michael Berrer in the first round last year.<\/p>\n<p>Milos' second round match with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atpl799.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jesse Levine<\/a> won't be played until Wednesday at the earliest. Levine is currently ranked No. 131 and defeated Benjamin Becker in the first round, winning in straight sets. We'll have to wait until the order of play is released to see if he'll be on a show court this time.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic defeated Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo in the first round of the French Open today, 6-4 6-2 6-2. He will face American Jesse Levine in the second round later this week. Raonic got off to a sluggish start in this match. He had to save several break points throughout the majority of the first set.\u00a0 [&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\/1791"}],"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=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1795,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}