{"id":676,"date":"2011-05-23T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2011-05-23T19:02:28","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:02:28","slug":"canadian-mens-hopefuls-go-down-women-advance-at-roland-garros-french-open-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/canadian-mens-hopefuls-go-down-women-advance-at-roland-garros-french-open-first-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian men&#8217;s hopefuls go down, women advance at Roland Garros (French Open &#8211; First Round)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3>Raonic and Dancevic lose their first round matches<\/h3>\n<p>Milos Raonic's first main-draw French Open journey was cut short today, when Michael Berrer (GER) defeated him in four sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.\u00a0 Canadian Frank Dancevic suffered a similar fate; he was also defeated in four sets ( 6-1, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 ) by Simone Bolelli of Italy. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/raonic-out-wozniak-advances\/article2031963\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Wozniak and Marino advance to second round<\/h3>\n<p>Rebecca Marino defeated Kateryna Bondarenko (UKR) yesterday in her first round match up in straight sets, 6-3, 6-3.\u00a0 She will play Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) (view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/headtohead\/rebecca-marino_2255881_12711\/0,,12781~12711~5542,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">head-to-head<\/a>) in her second round match. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/canadas-marino-advances-at-french-open\/article2031285\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Qualifier and fellow Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak achieved even better results this afternoon, winning her first round match versus Junri Namigata of Japan with a sizzling 6-1, 6-1 score.\u00a0 Aleksandra will face World No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki (view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtatennis.com\/headtohead\/aleksandra-wozniak_2255881_9813\/0,,12781~9813~12631,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">head-to-head<\/a>) in the second round.\u00a0 Caro ousted her first-round opponent, Kimiko Date-Krumm, also of Japan, with similar ease at 6-0, 6-2 today. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/sports\/more-sports\/raonic-out-wozniak-advances\/article2031963\/\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Schedule of Play<\/h3>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en_FR\/scores\/schedule\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">schedule<\/a>, Wozniak and Marino will not be playing their next singles matches tomorrow, although Marino will be first up on Court 11 in doubles action.\u00a0 Television coverage is being provided by <a href=\"http:\/\/tsn.ca\/tennis\/\" target=\"_blank\">TSN and TSN2<\/a> in Canada.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raonic and Dancevic lose their first round matches Milos Raonic&#8217;s first main-draw French Open journey was cut short today, when Michael Berrer (GER) defeated him in four sets, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.\u00a0 Canadian Frank Dancevic suffered a similar fate; he was also defeated in four sets ( 6-1, 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 6-2 ) by Simone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676"}],"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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/milosraonic.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}