{"id":611,"date":"2011-04-29T21:22:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T00:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=611"},"modified":"2011-04-29T21:23:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T00:23:08","slug":"unexpected-darkness-phenomenon-plagues-estoril-open-games-delayed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/unexpected-darkness-phenomenon-plagues-estoril-open-games-delayed\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Darkness Phenomenon plagues Estoril Open &#8211; Games Delayed!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Milos Raonic's match against Gilles Simon was delayed until late this afternoon due to rain. \u00a0After it began, it was postponed due to\u00a0<strong>darkness <\/strong>with Milos about to serve at 5-6. \u00a0Although the players are on serve, each player has been broken once thus far, with Milos saving 0\/1 break points and Simon saving 1\/2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Milos Raonic (CAN) versus Gilles Simon (FRA) quarter-final match will resume tomorrow, 12 noon GMT, or 7 am Eastern Time on Court 1. <\/strong> It's unclear whether Sportsnet will be airing the matches this early, but their website states they will be showing the semi-finals tomorrow, starting at 3 pm Eastern. \u00a0Best thing to do is check all their channels out at 7 am tomorrow. \u00a0If they aren't carrying it, find a stream on the internet or check out the live score ticker available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.protennislive.com\/frameset.asp?year=2011&amp;wkno=17&amp;lang=en&amp;tabno=1&amp;eventid=M008&amp;ref=www.estorilopen.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If Milos wins his quarter-final match against Simon, he will face the winner of the Verdasco \/ Anderson match at 4 pm local (11 am Eastern Time) on Central Court. \u00a0The Verdasco \/ Anderson match which will be resuming at 12 noon local time in Portugal as well on \"Centralito\". \u00a0Verdasco had just enough time to lose the first set in a tiebreak before darkness caused the postponement of that match as well.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic&#8217;s match against Gilles Simon was delayed until late this afternoon due to rain. \u00a0After it began, it was postponed due to\u00a0darkness with Milos about to serve at 5-6. \u00a0Although the players are on serve, each player has been broken once thus far, with Milos saving 0\/1 break points and Simon saving 1\/2. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611"}],"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=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}