{"id":44,"date":"2016-08-22T01:20:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T01:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordontennis.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:59:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T19:59:43","slug":"wimbledon-final-preview-raonic-vs-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2016\/08\/22\/wimbledon-final-preview-raonic-vs-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Kvitova still does not have full sensation in her racquet hand. The former world number two and two-time Wimbledon champion : Raonic vs Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three Grand Slams <strong>Andy Murray<\/strong> will face <strong>Milos Raonic<\/strong> in the latter stages. Andy Murray completely dominated <strong>Tomas Berdych<\/strong> on his way to a third <strong>Wimbledon Final<\/strong>. Meanwhile, the big-serving Raonic became the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/2016\/07\/08\/milos-raonic-becomes-first-canadian-man-reach-wimbledon-final\/\" target=\"_self\">first Canadian to make a grand slam singles final<\/a> having beaten <strong>Roger Federer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Wimbledon Final Preview: Raonic vs Murray<\/h3>\n<p>Milos Raonic is a surprise finalist in many ways. He was originally drawn in the same section as two-time defending champion <strong>Novak Djokovic<\/strong>. It can be argued that Raonic has made some serious progress this year, making the second week of the first three majors in the process of his rise up the rankings. A win against Murray on Sunday would put Raonic inside the Top 5 once again in the <strong>ATP rankings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>The Queens Final Re-Match<\/h3>\n<p>The No.7 player in the world Raonic is the underdog on this surface against Andy Murray for a number of reasons, but Murray isn\u2019t a heavy favourite in this match up at all. Raonic demonstrated in the final of Queens that he can cause Murray considerable problems. A great amount of lessons will be learned from that match. Raonic and newly-appointed-coach <strong>John McEnroe<\/strong> will converse about in preparation for the biggest match of Raonic\u2019s career thus far.<\/p>\n<p>In that Queens Final, Raonic led by a set and a break until Murray found a way to win. The fact that Raonic did push Murray to the brink on a grass court, in an ATP Final this season, does suggest that that performance has relevance to their upcoming Wimbledon clash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/2016\/07\/09\/wimbledon-final-preview-raonic-vs-murray\/\" target=\"_self\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second time in three Grand Slams Andy Murray will face Milos Raonic in the latter stages. Andy Murray completely dominated Tomas Berdych on his way to a third Wimbledon Final. Meanwhile, the big-serving Raonic became the first Canadian to make a grand slam singles final having beaten Roger Federer. Wimbledon Final Preview: Raonic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16,20,21],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wimbledon","tag-andy-murray","tag-milos-raonic","tag-wimbledon"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}