{"id":2487,"date":"2013-04-20T17:39:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T20:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2013-04-27T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T19:47:47","slug":"barcelona-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/barcelona-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona 500"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Update, April 27th: Nadal defeats Raonic 6-4, 6-0.  Nadal was on in the 2nd set, enough to push Milos right out of the match.  Hopefully some positives for Raonic out of this, as he is responsible for Nadal having elevated his game- Almagro had better be ready for a good match tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p>Update, April 26th: Milos defeats Gulbis and Robredo, sets up a semi-final match-up with Rafa Nadal tomorrow, April 27th!\u00a0 Catch it LIVE on Sportsnet ONE at 10am ET, 7am PT.\u00a0 Thank you Sportsnet!!<\/p>\n<p>Update, April 25:\u00a0Convincing 6-4, 6-2 Victory for Milos in his 1st Match in Barcelona over Edouard Roger-Vasselin. Milos' next Opponent will be Ernests Gulbis.\u00a0\u00a0 [Daniel]\u00a0 ** Rain-delayed; now scheduled for Friday, April 26:\u00a0 two matches. **<\/p>\n<p>Update, April 23: E. Roger-Vasselin has won his match against Hajek, so will be Milos' second round opponent, first up (11:00am) April 24 on Pista 1.\u00a0 Meanwhile\u00a0F.Verdasco has fallen to qualifier Ernests Gulbis (ATP#53) who now waits for a potential third round match with Milos.<\/p>\n<p>April 20:\u00a0\u00a0 The Barcelona draw is out:\u00a0\u00a0 >>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/posting\/2013\/425\/mds.pdf\">http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/posting\/2013\/425\/mds.pdf<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <<\n\n...and it's not a bad one for Milos:\u00a0\u00a0 as 5th seed he starts with a bye; in round 2\u00a0will play the winner of Edouard Roger-Vasselin (ATP#81) vs qualifier Jan Hajek (ATP#89).\u00a0 If Milos gets past second round he will likely meet [not Tuesday; probably Wednesday] Fernando Verdasco (ATP#31) -- very much at home on clay, but not having a great year so far. Success vs Verdasco would take Milos to the QF, likely against the winner of a Berdych vs Dimitrov match; either way a challenge, but a match to look forward to!\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update, April 27th: Nadal defeats Raonic 6-4, 6-0. Nadal was on in the 2nd set, enough to push Milos right out of the match. Hopefully some positives for Raonic out of this, as he is responsible for Nadal having elevated his game- Almagro had better be ready for a good match tomorrow! Update, April 26th: [&hellip;]<\/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\/2487"}],"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=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}