{"id":2568,"date":"2013-05-23T16:12:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2568"},"modified":"2013-05-31T21:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T00:54:52","slug":"roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/05\/23\/roland-garros\/","title":{"rendered":"Roland Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May 31: Disappointing match: Anderson defeats Milos in straight sets, 75 76(4) 63. Anderson played solid tennis, especially receiving;\u00a0keeping\u00a0most of Milos' serves in play, winning 40% of return points. Meanwhile on this day every part of Milos' game was letting him down. Take out his 16 aces, he had 34 winners; but also 38 unforced errors. Full credit to Anderson who kept the pressure on consistently; he deserved the win today.<\/p>\n

Milos:\u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/Tennis\/Media\/Videos\/Uploaded\/2013\/5\/31\/Roland-Garros-2013-Friday-Interview-Raonic.aspx<\/a>\u00a0 <<<\/p>\n

May 30: Milos is scheduled to play Kevin Anderson third-up on Court 7 (after Wawrinka vs Zeballos) so approx. 2pm Paris Time, 8am ET, 5am PT.<\/p>\n

May 29: [Benoit Paire has defeated Marcos Baghdatis, so Milos Raonic is up on Court Susan Lenglen any minute now, about 8:30AM Eastern Time (10AM Newfoundland Time).] A good win for Milos today: tough, but good. Milos dominated for the first five games. But then Llodra stepped up his game, won the second set, and played even through the third.\u00a0Fortunately, Milos\u00a0found another gear to start off the tie-break: took three quick points\u00a0and went on to win the set. He\u00a0carried that momentum into the fourth set, which he won with two breaks. Overall a good, aggressive\u00a0match, as evidenced by 75 winners, more than balancing out 42 unforced errors; 33 points won out of 46 (!) times at net; 39% receiving points won. Both Llodra\u00a0and\u00a0Milos served well, but Milos won the match on his return game: 75 36 76(3) 62. Next up: Kevin Anderson, probably Friday.<\/p>\n

Matthew Cronin:\u00a0http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/news\/articles\/2013-05-29\/201305291369848427284.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <<<\/p>\n

May 28: Milos is scheduled to play Michael Llodra tomorrow: Wednesday,\u00a0May 29, approx. 1pm or 2pm Paris time, approx. 7am or 8am ET, 4am or 5am PT.\u00a0\u00a0Watch it on TSN2: \u00a0http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/tennis\/story\/?id=424171<\/a>\u00a0 <<<\/p>\n

Also up tomorrow, about an hour earlier, will be Vasek Pospisil, finishing his rain-delayed first-round match vs Horatio Zeballos.\u00a0\u00a0 Milos on RG-TV:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/multimedia\/2013-05-27\/013ee58638f800000b3f.html<\/a>\u00a0 <<<\/p>\n

May 26: The steak seems to have worked for Milos:\u00a0 he had two sets, at least, of \"red meat\" aggressive tennis, before backsliding a bit to lose the third; but he took the fourth set in workmanlike fashion. Next up, probably Wednesday,\u00a0will be Michael Llodra, who also took four sets to get past his first-round opponent, Steve Darcis.<\/p>\n

May 25: Milos just tweeted \"steak tonight\"\u00a0-- he and Xavier Malisse are first-up tomorrow on Court 1; will be shown live on TSN2 at 5am\u00a0ET, 2am PT, repeating at 3pm ET, noon PT.<\/p>\n

>> http:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/tennis\/story\/?id=423975&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed<\/a>#\u00a0\u00a0 <<\u00a0 [Don't miss the link on the right \"French Open: Ready to Roll\" where Milos talks about Malisse and the coaching change.]<\/p>\n

May 24:\u00a0\u00a0Milos has drawn to the third quarter, with David Ferrer, in the bottom half, with Roger Federer. (Nadal and Djokovic are in the top half.) Milos' theoretical (no upsets) path to QF would be 1) Xavier Malisse (ATP#54) 2) Michael Llodra (#56) 3) Kevin Anderson (#25) 4) David Ferrer; if he could make it past David, Roger Federer would likely\u00a0be waiting for him at SF.\u00a0 Malisse is a tougher opponent than we would have hoped for in round one, but Milos should be able to handle him. Overall, probably not a bad draw.<\/p>\n

>> http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/scores\/draws\/ms\/r2s2.html<\/a>\u00a0 << Updates daily.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 31: Disappointing match: Anderson defeats Milos in straight sets, 75 76(4) 63. Anderson played solid tennis, especially receiving;\u00a0keeping\u00a0most of Milos’ serves in play, winning 40% of return points. Meanwhile on this day every part of Milos’ game was letting him down. Take out his 16 aces, he had 34 winners; but also 38 unforced […]<\/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\/2568"}],"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=2568"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2568\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}