{"id":2777,"date":"2013-09-24T16:55:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2777"},"modified":"2013-09-29T12:50:04","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T15:50:04","slug":"bangkok-thailand-open-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/24\/bangkok-thailand-open-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangkok: Thailand Open 250"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sept 29th:<\/p>\n

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click for Canadian Press article on CBC.ca (photo: Sakchai Lalit\/Associated Press)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sept. 28:<\/p>\n

Milos stepped it up at the big points, breaking Gasquet late in 2nd and 3rd sets to set right the recent US Open loss that stole so many potential points (Milos would've beaten Ferrer too)!!!<\/p>\n

\"@Tennis_Canada: The Raonic v Berdych Thailand Open final will be shown live on Sportsnet ONE at 4 am ET. #Sleepisfortheweak #CdnTennis #goMilos\"<\/p>\n

Set your alarms folks.<\/p>\n

Sept. 27:\u00a0 No \"getting away with it\" today: Milos put on a stunning display of how he can serve when he's firing on all cylinders, and backed it up with some great groundstrokes, lobs -- you-name-it. After the match commentator Robbie Koenig tweeted, \"That was THE best serving display of 2013!\"<\/em> Nothing wrong with Lopez' play today, but he still managed to win only 8 points total off Milos' serve. An amazing 81% of service points won, based on 86% first serves in, including 19 aces, led to this 6-4 6-3 win. Tomorrow's SF match vs\u00a0Richard Gasquet will take place approx. 3pm BKK time: Sportsnet ONE 4am ET,\u00a01am PT. Also on tape-delay at 9:30am ET -- thanks TT.<\/p>\n

>> \u00a0http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/raonic-cruises-into-thailand-open-semifinal\/<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <<\n\nSep 26th:\n\nMilos got away with it today, though it was very close throughout almost the entire match. Not an impressive performance, but good enough to avenge the Washington loss to Matosevic a couple of months ago. I had a feeling from the length of the recording when I sat down late today to watch it that it was going to be a grind...\n\nRaonic is up last on Centre Court tomorrow, Fri, 27 Sep. He follows the Youzhny\/Gasquet match which starts at 7:30pm local time (subtract 11hrs for Eastern Time, their match starts at 8:30am ET). This means Milos' match will take place around 11am ET. It looks like Sportsnet ONE plans to cover the day and evening sessions, importantly, listing coverage from 8:30am (start of Gasquet\/Youzhny) to 12:30pm.\n\nMilos will be facing Feliciano Lopez in this Quarter-Final match-up, a friend who he had to face in the round of 32 at this year's US Open (winning in 4 sets after dropping the first set in the tiebreak). The conditions will be a little different but will likely favour Raonic even more.\n\nSept. 25: Milos\u00a0will play\u00a0Matosevic third-up (about 3:30pm BKK time? 6:30am ET?) on Centre Court Thursday, Sept. 26. Meanwhile, a disappointing loss for Vasek: down in two tie-breaks to Delbonis. But Genie upset 6th-seed Jelena Jankovic 7-5 6-2 to make it to QF where she'll meet Venus Williams.\n\nUPDATE: Sportsnet's schedule (http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/schedule\/) says they're playing ATP Thailand coverage from 1 AM to 5 AM, so it looks like we only get the first 4 hours. Hopefully that will be extended now that we know when Milos plays... Or perhaps they'll switch it to another channel that's showing re-runs of sports commentary.\n\nSept. 24: Indoor hardcourt should be good for\u00a0Milos who is seeded third behind Berdych and Gasquet and has\u00a0a first-round bye. But he'll face a challenge second round from a strong Marinko Matosevic, who beat Milos in straight sets in their last meeting, in Washington, and who won his first round match 6-1 6-1.\n\nMeanwhile, other Canadians are doing well. At the Kuala Lumpur 250, after a slow start, 7th seeded (!) Vasek Pospisil defeated V. Hanescu 1-6 6-1 6-3; he'll face F. Delbonis in the second round. And in Tokyo our Genie Bouchard, after\u00a0defeating Monica Puig in the first round 6-0 6-4,\u00a0upset 9th-seed Sloane Stephens 5-7 7-6(7) 6-3. Genie will crack top-40 next week!\n\n\u00a0\n<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sept 29th: Sept. 28: Milos stepped it up at the big points, breaking Gasquet late in 2nd and 3rd sets to set right the recent US Open loss that stole so many potential points (Milos would’ve beaten Ferrer too)!!! “@Tennis_Canada: The Raonic v Berdych Thailand Open final will be shown live on Sportsnet ONE at […]<\/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\/2777"}],"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=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}