{"id":362,"date":"2011-03-08T10:42:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2011-03-08T10:42:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T14:42:53","slug":"a-brief-history-of-milos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/08\/a-brief-history-of-milos\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Milos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Want to know more about Milos Raonic? Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpworldtour.com\/News\/DEUCE-Tennis\/DEUCE-Australian-Open-2011\/Milos-Raonic.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">\"The Missile Finds Its Mark\"<\/a> over at the ATP website, written by Joel Drucker. The article recounts Milos' recent rise in the rankings, and how his development as a player <em>and<\/em> a person has contributed to his success. It also reveals how Raonic has become a student of the history of tennis, and how he tries to model his on-court temperament after his idol Pete Sampras.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an excerpt from the article concerning Canada and Raonic's motivations as a player:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That Raonic comes from Canada is revealing. Though he is grateful to  Canada\u2019s tennis community and plans to do what he can to aid the game\u2019s  growth there, Raonic\u2019s singular ascent and commitment show at one level  that it\u2019s very tricky to gauge if any kind of national system can truly  yield great players. Said Raonic, \u201cIt\u2019s great to be Canadian, but at the  end of the day, it\u2019s for myself, as an individual.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that just about says it all.<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know more about Milos Raonic? Read &#8220;The Missile Finds Its Mark&#8221; over at the ATP website, written by Joel Drucker. The article recounts Milos&#8217; recent rise in the rankings, and how his development as a player and a person has contributed to his success. It also reveals how Raonic has become a student [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}