{"id":2243,"date":"2013-01-03T01:04:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2013-01-03T01:43:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T05:43:38","slug":"milos-looking-a-little-rusty-to-start-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/01\/03\/milos-looking-a-little-rusty-to-start-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos looking a little rusty to start 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Milos Raonic loses to Grigor Dimitrov, 6-3, 6-4, in 2nd round in Brisbane, Australia<\/h3>\n

We didn't see Milos at his best tonight (in more ways than one, was difficult to see his new \"New Balance\" digs <\/a>with the only crappy internet stream I was able to find).\u00a0 Dimitrov looked very good throughout the match, whipping around and not allowing Milos' power game get into a groove.<\/p>\n

It will be more practice on the menu for Milos this week, with us fans hoping he'll try to jump into the Heineken Open in New Zealand next week alongside players like Ferrer, Querry, Kohlschreiber, Monfils, and Tommy Haas.<\/p>\n

Rankings heading into the Australian Open<\/h3>\n

Obviously, not being able to defend this week's 250 points from the 2012 win in Chennai will hurt Milos, more the reason to jump into the tournament in Auckland maybe?\u00a0 I hadn't considered this possibility as I didn't expect a loss today.\u00a0 If anyone's done the math on the possibility\u00a0of Milos dropping out of the top 16\/17 seeds for the Aussie Open, and when the cut off is, let us know!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: See comments below from Daniel<\/strong><\/span>, looks like Milos can't drop any further than 16th this week, sitting at 15 right now unless Simon betters his result from last year, where he had a QF result in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/twitter.com\/MilosRaonicBlog\/status\/286701008086765568<\/p>\n

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

Milos Raonic loses to Grigor Dimitrov, 6-3, 6-4, in 2nd round in Brisbane, Australia We didn’t see Milos at his best tonight (in more ways than one, was difficult to see his new “New Balance” digs with the only crappy internet stream I was able to find).\u00a0 Dimitrov looked very good throughout the match, whipping […]<\/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\/2243"}],"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=2243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2250,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2243\/revisions\/2250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}