{"id":4449,"date":"2013-09-29T23:16:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-29T23:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2015-09-20T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T06:03:30","slug":"milos-raonic-wins-the-thailand-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/news\/atp-tennis\/milos-raonic-wins-the-thailand-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Milos Raonic Wins the Thailand Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic defeated the top seed Tomas Berdych in straight sets 7-6, 6-3 to secure his fifth ATP tour title in Bangkok at the Thailand Open.<\/p>\n<p>The first set went with serve, although Raonic had to fend off a set point at 5-6 before taking it into a tiebreak that he won 7-4.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian broke early in the second set and protected his lead with a display of serving excellence, thundering down 18 aces in total.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew I had to play slightly more aggressive, not just put the ball in play. I did that and was able to take control, I got some insight into what I needed to do to beat him,\u201d stated the 22-year-old Canadian after the match. His approach paid dividends in securing the title and improving his personal head-to-head with Berdych to 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Murray of the UK and Australian John Peers won the men&#8217;s doubles title with a 6-3, 3-6 [10-6] victory over Tomasz Bednarek and Johan Brunstrom.<\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/forum\/showthread.php?tid=1126\"><strong>Discuss the Thailand Open with fellow tennis fans on the Tennis Frontier message boards.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[divider]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Milos Raonic defeated the top seed Tomas Berdych in straight sets 7-6, 6-3 to secure his fifth ATP tour title in Bangkok at the Thailand Open. The first set went with serve, although Raonic had to fend off a set point at 5-6 before taking it into a tiebreak that he won 7-4. The Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[397,398,399,20,396,136],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp-tennis","tag-bangkok","tag-jamie-murray","tag-john-peers","tag-milos-raonic","tag-thailand-open","tag-tomas-berdych"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennisfrontier.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}