{"id":1831,"date":"2012-06-22T09:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2012-06-22T09:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:54:20","slug":"wimbledon-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/22\/wimbledon-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/scores\/draws\/ms\/r1s3.html\" target=\"_blank\">draw<\/a> for Wimbledon has been announced. Milos Raonic is seeded No.21 and will face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/players\/overview\/atpg725.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santiago Giraldo<\/a> (COL) in the first round.<\/h5>\n<p>Santiago defeated Raonic in Davis Cup play in 2010, but a lot has changed in the last two years. Also, Santiago has never advanced past the first round in Wimbledon. It's not an easy first round opponent for Raonic (Santiago is ranked No.45), but you have to like his chances on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>In the second round, Milos could face either Sam Querry or fellow Canadian Vasek Pospisil. A possible third round opponent could be Marin Cilic, who is seeded No.16. Raonic is in Andy Murray's quarter of the draw (they could meet in the fourth round) and they're in the same half as Rafael Nadal. You can read more about the draw for Raonic <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sportsinteraction.com\/sports\/tennis-sports\/tennis-milos-raonic-draws-santiago-giraldo-at-wimbledon-33093\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Could this be the year that Raonic makes a statement at Wimby? It's a tough looking draw, that's for sure. But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wimbledon.com\/en_GB\/news\/articles\/2012-06-22\/201206211340295881875.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Sampras says <\/a>that Milos is \"a dark horse at Wimbledon.\" Live coverage starts Monday morning at 6:30AM ET on TSN.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for Wimbledon has been announced. Milos Raonic is seeded No.21 and will face Santiago Giraldo (COL) in the first round. Santiago defeated Raonic in Davis Cup play in 2010, but a lot has changed in the last two years. Also, Santiago has never advanced past the first round in Wimbledon. It&#8217;s not an [&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\/1831"}],"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=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}