{"id":653,"date":"2011-05-17T12:16:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T15:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=653"},"modified":"2011-05-17T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T18:02:28","slug":"canadian-men-qualifying-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/17\/canadian-men-qualifying-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Men Qualifying in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5>Qualifying for the men's singles got underway at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Roland-Garros<\/a> this morning. Two Canadians, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atppb22.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Polansky<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atpd499.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Dancevic<\/a>, were in action today and achieved mixed results.<\/h5>\n<p>After taking the first set in a tiebreak against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atpk540.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lukasz Kubot<\/a> (POL), Polansky would end up losing the match in three sets, 7-6(3) 1-6 0-6. Dancevic closed out his first round match in straight sets against his Slovakian opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atpl797.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lukas Lacko<\/a>, 6-2 6-2. Dancevic will face <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/overview\/atpse66.html\" target=\"_blank\">Eduardo Schwank<\/a> (ARG) in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/scores\/draws\/qs\/r2s2.html\" target=\"_blank\">second round of qualifying<\/a>. The two have never met at the ATP World Tour level, or at a major or in Davis Cup play.<\/p>\n<p>The the qualifying draw for the women's singles won't be released until later today.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Milos Raonic will be entered directly into the main draw since he is currently No.28 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/players\/rankingsm.html\" target=\"_blank\">ATP Rankings<\/a>. This means Milos should be seeded in the tournament as well. Being seeded at a Major is obviously a huge deal in its own right but it's also an advantage when it comes to early round opponents, which was a problem recently in Madrid and Rome. The main draw won't be available until Friday, when the qualifying rounds have been completed.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, why not check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/milos-raonic-thrives-under-a-spanish-sun\/article2023032\/\" target=\"_blank\">Part 2<\/a> of the Globe &amp; Mail's 3-part series on <strong>The Tennis Project<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>-multi<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualifying for the men&#8217;s singles got underway at Roland-Garros this morning. Two Canadians, Peter Polansky and Frank Dancevic, were in action today and achieved mixed results. After taking the first set in a tiebreak against Lukasz Kubot (POL), Polansky would end up losing the match in three sets, 7-6(3) 1-6 0-6. Dancevic closed out his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653"}],"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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":658,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}