{"id":2966,"date":"2013-08-11T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:05:35","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:05:35","slug":"nadal-wins-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/nadal-wins-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Nadal Beats Raonic to Win Rogers Cup \/ Canada Masters 1000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rafael Nadal topped his own record in Masters Series titles with win at Rogers Cup in Montreal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p>Rafa won his 25th title at the ATP 1000 level with today&#8217;s win over local favorite, Milos Raonic. \u00a0The Canadian was making his first appearance in a Masters 1000 final. \u00a0In stark contrast to last night&#8217;s semifinal against Novak Djokovic, Nadal was in firm control. After breaking Raonic&#8217;s service in the first game, the outcome of the match never seemed in doubt. \u00a0Raonic&#8217;s big weapon, his serve, let him down, as he got broken twice in each set, and only saw break points on Nadal&#8217;s serve in one game, in the second set, but failed to convert. \u00a0The final score was 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Spaniard&#8217;s 3rd title at this tournament. \u00a0The win puts his W-L count to 47-3 for the year, and gives him his 8th title, and 7th Masters trophy at a hard court event. \u00a0He now has a commanding lead in the year-to-date point totals, with 8,010. \u00a0(Djokovic is in second place with 6,590.)<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=769\"><strong>Click here to discuss the Nadal\/Raonic Rogers Cup final with fellow tennis fans in our discussion forum.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Nadal topped his own record in Masters Series titles with win at Rogers Cup in Montreal. [divider] Rafa won his 25th title at the ATP 1000 level with today&#8217;s win over local favorite, Milos Raonic. \u00a0The Canadian was making his first appearance in a Masters 1000 final. \u00a0In stark contrast to last night&#8217;s semifinal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2928,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20,78,297],"class_list":["post-2966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-milos-raonic","tag-rafael-nadal","tag-rogers-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}