{"id":495,"date":"2011-03-25T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2011-03-25T18:13:54","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T21:13:54","slug":"raonic-came-out-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/25\/raonic-came-out-flat\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic came out flat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wasn't able to watch today's match (glad to have the live scores ticker), but it was pretty clear that Raonic didn't get off to a great start against Somdev Devvarman in Miami. In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/sports\/tennis\/article\/961842--raonic-bounced-early-at-sony-ericsson-open\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, Raonic himself admits that he come out a little flat and just wasn't able to recover.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI was trying to overcome a lot of things,\u201d [Raonic] said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t playing my best, I wasn\u2019t feeling the ball.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was trying to just squeeze by. I wanted to win today and use  tomorrow to get better and play better Sunday. But that didn\u2019t happen.  He played well. It was not the greatest match but I was there fighting  as much as I could today.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And fight he did. Coming back from two breaks down in the first set to force a tiebreak is no small feat. But alas, it was not to be. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/sports\/othersports\/2011\/03\/25\/17755896.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, Raonic will be playing the ATP 1000 Masters event in Monte-Carlo next. This is the first big clay court tournament of the year, and it gets underway on April 9.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t able to watch today&#8217;s match (glad to have the live scores ticker), but it was pretty clear that Raonic didn&#8217;t get off to a great start against Somdev Devvarman in Miami. In this article, Raonic himself admits that he come out a little flat and just wasn&#8217;t able to recover. \u201cI was trying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}