{"id":2510,"date":"2013-05-02T17:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T20:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2510"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:52:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T03:52:48","slug":"madrid-open-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/madrid-open-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Mutua Madrid Open 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 7: Verdasco squeaked past Raonic today, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7). Up 4-1 in the 3rd set tiebreak, Raonic couldn't put it away:<\/p>\n

\u201cI had hopes when I led 4-1 in the tiebreaker and when I saved those two match points. But in the end I was missing shots by quite a bit or he was playing well. I was letting him get ahead in points. It all depended on me today.\u201d -- from the Globe and Mail today<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI should have done better than I did here. I\u2019m capable of much better and hopefully I can show that,\u201d said Raonic, now 18-7 this season. -- also from the Globe today<\/a><\/p>\n

May 6: Milos squeaked past Davydenko today 75 76(5). Only 44% of first serves in, 4 double-faults, and \"only\" 6 aces; so it was\u00a0Milos' return game -- including 29% of first return points -- that kept him in the match. Milos converted 1 out of 5 break points, and saved 2, including a set point. >> http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/canadas-raonic-beats-davydenko-in-madrid\/<\/a>\u00a0<<\u00a0 Next up: Fernando Verdasco, on home clay, tomorrow (Tuesday, May 7) at 5pm [11am ET, 8am PT]. Milos has beaten Verdasco twice on hard-court, lost their last two meetings, on clay -- but that was two years ago. Milos has been playing\u00a0well on clay this year, but this will be a tough test.\u00a0 Here's hoping Milos will be motivated to make Verdasco eat his words:\u00a0 >>\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/tennis\/blog\/busted_racquet\/post\/Verdasco-whines-that-Raonic-s-two-wins-didn-t-co?urn=ten-323464<\/a> <<\n\nMay 5: Milos will play N. Davydenko tomorrow (Monday, May 6) at approx. 2:30pm Madrid time [8:30am ET, 5:30am PT]. Joining Milos in the main draw will be Jesse Levine, who upset Igor Sijsling 63 64 in his second qualifying match today; Jesse will play Kevin Anderson tomorrow. Waiting\u00a0in second round for Milos, if he wins against Davydenko, will be\u00a0F. Verdasco, who beat D. Goffin today 76(2) 62.\n\nMay 3: Draw is out:\n\n>> http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Share\/Event-Draws.aspx?Year=2013&EventId=1536&Draw=ms<\/a>\u00a0<<\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0[Updates daily]\n\nMilos has drawn to Djokovic's quarter, but as 12th seed would probably meet Tsonga in R16, after Nikolay Davydenko (ATP#43) \u00a0first round, then the winner of D. Goffin (ATP#61)\u00a0vs F. Verdasco (ATP#45), second round.\n\nMilos has teamed up with Grigor Dimitrov for doubles; will play T. Haas & R. Stepanek first round, then 8th seed J. Melzer & L. Paes. Likely QF opponents,\u00a0 if they get that far, would be the Bryan Brothers.\n\n>> http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/posting\/2013\/1536\/mdd.pdf<\/a>\u00a0<<\n\n\"Milos&Pico\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Also: by making it to the Munich F, Tommy Haas has picked up enough points to bump Milos down to #14 in the ATP live-rankings.\u00a0\u00a0 >> http:\/\/live-tennis.eu\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <<\u00a0\u00a0 Milos remains at #11 in the ATP Race, behind Nico Almagro #9 and Roger Federer #10, but if Haas wins Munich he'll overtake Milos in the Race, too.\n\nMovers and Shakers:\u00a0 Jesse Levine is up 6 in the live ATP rankings, to 88,\u00a0after winning his first-round qualifying match at Madrid. And Vasek Pospisil is up 28 (!) in the rankings, to 103, after winning the Johannesburg Challenger.\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 7: Verdasco squeaked past Raonic today, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7). Up 4-1 in the 3rd set tiebreak, Raonic couldn’t put it away: \u201cI had hopes when I led 4-1 in the tiebreaker and when I saved those two match points. But in the end I was missing shots by quite a bit or he […]<\/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\/2510"}],"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=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2547,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2510\/revisions\/2547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}