{"id":1860,"date":"2012-07-31T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2012-07-31T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-31T18:07:47","slug":"milos-olympics-are-over-but-not-without-a-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/milos-olympics-are-over-but-not-without-a-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos&#8217; Olympics are over&#8230; but not without a fight!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Tsonga outlasts Raonic in record-setting second-round match<\/h3>\n<p>What an amazing end to Milos' second round match with Joe Wilfred Tsonga.\u00a0 Both players showed immense skill, determination, and endurance.\u00a0 Both player's had an excellent attitude throughout the marathon match and their smiles at the end showed just how enjoyable it was for them.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it wasn't the longest match in Olympic history, as CTV tweeted that their research dept found that a match in 1920 lasted over 6 hours.\u00a0 It was the most games in a set though, with the third set going the distance.\u00a0 <strong>Final:\u00a0 3-6, 6-3, 23-25.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many commentators, bloggers, commentors on blogs, etc. have been saying that Milos needs more experience in long, 5-set matches; that he needs more rallies in competition versus top-10 playersl; and, that he needs more time playing on grass, in order to unleash his obviously potential on this surface.\u00a0 Well it looks like that's not a problem anymore!<\/p>\n<p>Bravo Milos, good job.\u00a0 You've made Canada proud!\u00a0 Congrats on an amazing match that us Canadian Tennis fans won't forget (and there's always 4 years from now- can't wait)!<\/p>\n<p>--wacb<\/p>\n<p>P.S. As I didn't get to watch the entire match, I'd be interested to hear comments from you all out there.\u00a0 I'll \"feature\" the good ones\u00a0in updates to\u00a0this post.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tsonga outlasts Raonic in record-setting second-round match What an amazing end to Milos&#8217; second round match with Joe Wilfred Tsonga.\u00a0 Both players showed immense skill, determination, and endurance.\u00a0 Both player&#8217;s had an excellent attitude throughout the marathon match and their smiles at the end showed just how enjoyable it was for them. Apparently it wasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}