{"id":2078,"date":"2012-08-20T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2012-08-20T00:32:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T03:32:38","slug":"raonic-into-the-top-16-in-atp-rankings-means-hell-face-players-seeded-17th-or-higher-for-first-3-rounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/20\/raonic-into-the-top-16-in-atp-rankings-means-hell-face-players-seeded-17th-or-higher-for-first-3-rounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic into the top 16 in ATP rankings, means he avoids top-16 opponents for first 3 rounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The new rankings are in:<\/p>\n

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It was close... he's 10 points ahead of Gilles Simon and 5 points behind the Dolgo.\u00a0 Raonic is in the top-16, which is quite a good place to be 2 weeks before a grandslam tournament.\u00a0 Since the \"seeds will be based on the August 20 rankings\" (link<\/a>), Raonic will not have to face anyone seeded within the top 16 until the 4th round (R16) of the US Open.\u00a0 There will be a top-8 player in Raonic's section of the draw that would be his 4th round opponent should they win their matches in the first three rounds.\u00a0 If that particular top-8 player doesn't make it to the 4th round, even the 4th round opponent will be outside the top-16.<\/p>\n

for the record, 17th would have been fine (which is where Milos would be had Simon not lost early in Cincinnati) since at least Raphael Nadal has indicated he won't be playing in the US Open, freeing up his seeding position and bumping those below him up 1...<\/em><\/p>\n

http:\/\/twitter.com\/MilosRaonicBlog\/status\/237379617483288576<\/p>\n

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

The new rankings are in: It was close… he’s 10 points ahead of Gilles Simon and 5 points behind the Dolgo.\u00a0 Raonic is in the top-16, which is quite a good place to be 2 weeks before a grandslam tournament.\u00a0 Since the “seeds will be based on the August 20 rankings” (link), Raonic will not […]<\/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\/2078"}],"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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}