{"id":2813,"date":"2013-10-07T18:24:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T21:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2013-10-09T23:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:05:34","slug":"shanghai-masters-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/shanghai-masters-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Masters 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oct 9th:<\/p>\n<p>Milos' next match will be versus Stanislas Wawrinka.  He'll be on Grandstand (a televised court) not before 6AM Eastern Time, but maybe as late as 8AM Eastern Time.  Stan has beaten Milos in their only previous meeting at Cincy 2012.  Stan's been playing well lately so it will be a challenging match...  if only we didn't have to be at work in the morning : ).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>Raonic gets past Verdasco 7-6(1), 3-6, 6-3 to reach the Rd of 16 in Shanghai where he will meet Wawrinka tomorrow. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23CdnTennis&amp;src=hash\">#CdnTennis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis Canada (@Tennis_Canada) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tennis_Canada\/statuses\/387941365629595648\">October 9, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oct 8th: After dismissing qualifier Michal Przysiezny, Raonic's next challenge is Fernando Verdasco, who he'll play in the last match on \"Union Pay Court 3\".  I don't think this one will be televised.  A few hours before that, Pospisil will take on Monfils on the same court.  Pospisil, having given Milos a chance at the Tour Finals by knocking out Gasquet today, will hopefully build on this big \"not-in-Canada\" win...  And if Milos actually makes it to the tour finals, perhaps he'll thank Vasek by paying for his tickets to go watch...<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>When chair ump tells Przysiezny to speed up play on his own serve, he responds, &quot;(Raonic&#39;s service) games are one minute, so ...&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23truth&amp;src=hash\">#truth<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephanie Myles (@exposbabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exposbabe\/statuses\/387571395783188480\">October 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>As ever, effective serving from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Raonic&amp;src=hash\">#Raonic<\/a> as he stays in the hunt for three ATP finals in as many weeks in Asia. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23ATP&amp;src=hash\">#ATP<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/514lXZQkCG\">pic.twitter.com\/514lXZQkCG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TennisTV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/statuses\/387577256949739521\">October 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p>Despite help from his countryman, Raonic still can&#39;t pass Gasquet for No. 9 in WTF race this wk unless he makes SFs. Not over tho.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephanie Myles (@exposbabe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/exposbabe\/statuses\/387545375604613120\">October 8, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oct 7th: Still on the Asian swing, Milos plays this week in Shanghai, starting at 8AM Eastern Time Tuesday (tomorrow, not before 8PM in Shanghai, Tues, 8 Oct).  The time difference between Eastern Time here in Canada and Shangai is 12 hours, so subtract 10 and a half hours to get Newfoundland Time : ).<\/p>\n<p>Raonic will face Qualifier Michal Przysiezny of Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Also in action tomorrow is Vasek Pospisil, who will take on Richard Gasquet around 4am Eeastern, tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>Aside: I thought this was a funny picture that TennisTV.com used for last week's final... reminded me of Seinfeld (not the \"another game for Milos skit, either):<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2817\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cosmo-raonic_milos-kramer.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2817\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cosmo-raonic_milos-kramer.png\" alt=\"Cosmo Raonic or Milos Kramer\" width=\"725\" height=\"606\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2817\" srcset=\"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cosmo-raonic_milos-kramer.png 725w, http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/cosmo-raonic_milos-kramer-300x250.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 725px) 100vw, 725px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosmo Raonic or Milos Kramer<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"post-sig\">Posted by wacb from WordPress for BlackBerry.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 9th: Milos&#8217; next match will be versus Stanislas Wawrinka. He&#8217;ll be on Grandstand (a televised court) not before 6AM Eastern Time, but maybe as late as 8AM Eastern Time. Stan has beaten Milos in their only previous meeting at Cincy 2012. Stan&#8217;s been playing well lately so it will be a challenging match&#8230; if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/2813"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}