Milos has won San Jose in its final installment, his 3rd in a row at the ATP 250 event. He never looked to be in trouble during the match with Haas, putting together a solid win in a match where he seemed the easy favourite (this is starting to become the norm...).<\/p>\n
Milos will Play in Memphis next, a tournament where he's also had great success in the past (made the finals in the past 2 years). The indoor hard-court surfaces are an obvious advantage for Milos given his strengths. Looking forward to another good showing from him!<\/p>\nUpdate: Milos into the final, and a chance for\u00a0 threepeat<\/h4>\n
Milos Raonic defeated Sam Querry 6-4, 6-2 yesterday.\u00a0 The match happened a little earlier than expected due to a schedule change required due to ATP rules regarding singles \/ doubles match timings and mandatory minimum rest.\u00a0 Milos should be well rested in any case for his match today versus Tommy Haas today.\u00a0 If he wins, it's a historic three SAP Open Titles in a row for Raonic, which would include the final running of this ATP 250 event in San Jose.\u00a0 Too bad, this tournament is an important part of Milos' history in the sport, being his first title and all that...<\/p>\n
Milos has never played Tommy Haas, who also defeated a home-country favourite, John Isner, in his semi-final bout.\u00a0 Both look to be in top form for their match to be played no earlier than 3 PM Pacific Time (6 PM ET, Feb 17th).\u00a0 Sportsnet ONE will be airing it live, but you can probably also catch it streaming here if you don't have access to cable TV <\u00a0http:\/\/www.sapopentennis.com\/matchcenter.asp<\/a> >.<\/p>\n Have a look at the article written by Jonathan Okanes for SAPOpenTennis.com here <\u00a0http:\/\/www.sapopentennis.com\/news\/News.asp?story_id=536<\/a> > which includes this interesting factoid:<\/p>\n Raonic has won 104 of 106 service games lifetime at the SAP Open.\u00a0 -- from SAPOpenTennis.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As the Canadian Press article notes, Milos has won 31 of 31 service games in this tournament so far... looking good!\u00a0 <\u00a0http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/sports\/tennis\/story\/2013\/02\/16\/sp-raonic-sap.html<\/a> ><\/p>\n Milos is into the semi-finals in San Jose, defeating Istomin 7-6 (0), 6-3.\u00a0 He will face either Sam Querry or Alejandro Falla tomorrow (Saturday) as he continues his run to threepeat at the SAP Open.<\/p>\n ---<\/p>\n The very last running of this event is now underway, with Milos attempting a three-peat, after winning in 2011 and 2012.\u00a0 But to get there he will likely need to beat Denis Istomin, Sam Querrey and John Isner. Milos' first match will be Thursday, Feb. 14 at 7pm Pacific Time. Unlikely we'll see it on TV, but we can watch it online at the excellent SAP Open site:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.sapopentennis.com\/matchcenter.asp<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 -- complete with play-by-play,\u00a0virtual replay\u00a0and\u00a0great stats.<\/p>\n Looks like Sportsnet ONE will be carrying the Semi-Final and Final matches, Saturday and Sunday, Feb.16 and 17.<\/p>\n We should also be watching out for Milos' Canadian team-mates Jesse Levine and Vasek Pospisil, who both defeated their first-round opponents in convincing straight sets.<\/p>\n Milos on ABC7 \u00a0>>\u00a0http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/kgo\/video?id=8989279<\/a>\u00a0 <<\n\n...and in conversation with Gian Gomeshi >>\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pruT0GWQwnE&feature=youtu.be<\/a>\u00a0 <<\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Milos Raonic def. Tommy Haas 6-4, 6-3 Milos has won San Jose in its final installment, his 3rd in a row at the ATP 250 event. He never looked to be in trouble during the match with Haas, putting together a solid win in a match where he seemed the easy favourite (this is starting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"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\/2353"}],"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\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2362,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Update:<\/h4>\n