{"id":626,"date":"2011-05-02T10:05:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2011-05-02T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T13:07:43","slug":"raonic-to-play-f-lopez-in-madrid-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/02\/raonic-to-play-f-lopez-in-madrid-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Raonic to play F. Lopez in Madrid&#8230; twice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>In a quirk of the draw at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/\">Mutua Madrid Open<\/a>, Milos Raonic will face Feliciano Lopez (ESP) in the first round of both the main singles and doubles draw.<\/h5>\n<p>And that's not all -- Lopez's partner in the doubles is one Fernando Verdasco (ESP). The match will be a mostly Spanish affair as Milos, who trains in Barcelona with his Spanish coach, is teamed up with Nicolas Almagro (ESP).<\/p>\n<p>Raonic is not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrid-open.com\/en\/schedule\">scheduled<\/a> to be on court today, giving him some extra time to recover from the back injury that forced him to retire against Verdasco in Portugal. There is more good news: \u00a0Sportsnet One is covering the Madrid Open on TV and online starting this morning at 8AM ET. The tournament is currently streaming live <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/tennis\/live_atp_tennis\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck in Madird, Milos!<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a quirk of the draw at the Mutua Madrid Open, Milos Raonic will face Feliciano Lopez (ESP) in the first round of both the main singles and doubles draw. And that&#8217;s not all &#8212; Lopez&#8217;s partner in the doubles is one Fernando Verdasco (ESP). The match will be a mostly Spanish affair as Milos, [&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\/626"}],"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=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}