{"id":2878,"date":"2013-12-28T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2013-12-28T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T18:38:44","slug":"hopman-cup-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2013\/12\/28\/hopman-cup-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopman Cup 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dec. 28 -- Although the Hopman Cup &gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hopmancup.com\/\">http:\/\/hopmancup.com\/<\/a> \u00a0&lt;\u00a0\u00a0doesn't carry any ATP or WTA points, it's a great choice for Milos and his partner Genie Bouchard to warm up for the Australian Open, and another opportunity\u00a0to carry the flag for Canada: three guaranteed singles\u00a0matches on alternating days (and a shot at the Final for a fourth)\u00a0plus mixed doubles. Canada is in Group A with Australia, Poland and Italy, and started off day one with a bang, defeating host Australia thanks to an upset 4-6 6-2\u00a0 6-3 victory by Genie over Sam Stoser,\u00a0following Milos' workmanlike but convincing 7-6 6-1 win over Bernard Tomic. A point-by-point\u00a0commentary can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroar.com.au\/2013\/12\/28\/bernard-tomic-vs-milos-raonic-2014-hopman-cup-live-scores-blog\/\">http:\/\/www.theroar.com.au\/2013\/12\/28\/bernard-tomic-vs-milos-raonic-2014-hopman-cup-live-scores-blog\/<\/a> &lt; Read from bottom up.\u00a0 Tomic and Stoser did win the mixed doubles 6-2 6-4 but that was a dead rubber which will only count against Canada if they end up tied with one of the other Group A teams. So right now Canada is looking pretty good for that Final slot vs the winner of the Group B round-robin.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 28 &#8212; Although the Hopman Cup &gt;\u00a0http:\/\/hopmancup.com\/ \u00a0&lt;\u00a0\u00a0doesn&#8217;t carry any ATP or WTA points, it&#8217;s a great choice for Milos and his partner Genie Bouchard to warm up for the Australian Open, and another opportunity\u00a0to carry the flag for Canada: three guaranteed singles\u00a0matches on alternating days (and a shot at the Final for a [&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\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}