{"id":2010,"date":"2012-08-10T01:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2012-08-10T01:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:51:10","slug":"ambitious-schedule-tomorrow-for-rogers-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/10\/ambitious-schedule-tomorrow-for-rogers-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious schedule tomorrow for Rogers Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New Schedule and Order Of Play<\/h2>\n

So, tournament organizers have planned to do the 3rd round (R16) tomorrow morning, and the QF round in the evening.\u00a0 Milos will be playing either John Isner or Philipp Kohlschreiber, who will have just playing their 3rd Round match a few hours earlier.\u00a0 Milos hasn't played either player.<\/p>\n

On the doubles side, Raonic\/Troicki handed a walk-over to Paes\/Melzer.\u00a0 I couldn't find any reasons for the withdrawal, but I figure Milos is planning to focus on singles play, and Troicki is escaping the rain...<\/p>\n

Click on this screenshot of the new OoP to access the schedule of play at RogersCup.com.\u00a0 For us fans, either watching in the stands or on CBC or Sportsnet on TV or streaming (see the bright green \"Live Streaming\" link at RogersCup.com<\/a>), it promises to be quite a day.\u00a0 For the players, having to play both matches in one day will probably be tough, but I think they rested well enough today : ).<\/p>\n

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The Weather<\/h2>\n

Now for the very bad news.\u00a0 While this schedule sounds great and would put the tournament back on track, the weather looks no better for the rest of the tournament.\u00a0 Here's what Environment Canada is predicting:<\/p>\n

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\n
\"\"<\/dt>\n
<\/dt>\n
Tonight<\/strong><\/dt>\n
Periods of rain ending overnight then cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm this evening and overnight. Amount 5 to 10 mm. Low 17.<\/dd>\n
\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Friday<\/strong><\/dt>\n
Cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers in the morning. Periods of rain beginning near noon. Risk of a thunderstorm in the morning and afternoon. Amount 10 to 20 mm. Wind becoming northeast 20 km\/h late in the morning. High 21.<\/dd>\n
\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Friday night<\/strong><\/dt>\n
A few showers ending after midnight then cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. Risk of a thunderstorm in the evening and overnight. Low 18.<\/dd>\n
\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Saturday<\/strong><\/dt>\n
Showers. High 21.<\/dd>\n
\u00a0<\/dd>\n
Sunday<\/strong><\/dt>\n
Cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers. Low 16. High 25.<\/dd>\n
<\/dd>\n
source: http:\/\/www.weatheroffice.gc.ca\/city\/pages\/on-64_metric_e.html<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This definitely puts the tournament in a tricky spot.<\/p>\n

I look forward to all this rain getting overwith during the thunderstorms tonight, and waking up to a sunny GTA!<\/p>\n

--wacb<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Schedule and Order Of Play So, tournament organizers have planned to do the 3rd round (R16) tomorrow morning, and the QF round in the evening.\u00a0 Milos will be playing either John Isner or Philipp Kohlschreiber, who will have just playing their 3rd Round match a few hours earlier.\u00a0 Milos hasn’t played either player. On […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/2010"}],"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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}