{"id":21640,"date":"2026-05-21T12:01:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=21640"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:01:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T10:01:15","slug":"former-world-number-two-badosa-receives-wildcard-for-libema-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2026\/05\/21\/former-world-number-two-badosa-receives-wildcard-for-libema-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Former World Number Two Badosa Receives Wildcard for Lib\u00e9ma Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Badosa has received a wildcard for the Lib\u00e9ma Open. The Spanish top player joins a strong field at the WTA 250 tournament.<\/p><p>The 28-year-old Badosa reached second place on the world rankings in 2022. Last year, she managed to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open.<\/p><p>The New York-born player has four WTA titles to her credit. Her biggest victory came in Indian Wells, where she won the WTA 1000 tournament in 2021.<\/p><p>This is the second time Badosa is coming to the Autotron &#8216;s-Hertogenbosch. In 2019, she made her debut on the Brabant grass courts.<\/p><p>&#8220;I am grateful and enthusiastic that I have been awarded a wildcard for the Lib\u00e9ma Open. I am happy that I can return after a period of absence. I look forward to playing for the Dutch fans.&#8221;<\/p><p>The strong field at the WTA 250 tournament includes, besides Badosa, two-time Grand Slam champion Barbora Krejcikova, two-time Lib\u00e9ma Open winner Ekaterina Alexandrova, defending champion Elise Mertens, Dutch number one Suzan Lamens, top 20 player Clara Tauson, and former number eight Emma Navarro.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/players\/ladies\/\">Here<\/a> you can find the list of participants for the WTA tournament.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paula Badosa has received a wildcard for the Lib\u00e9ma Open. The Spanish top player joins a strong field at the WTA 250 tournament.The 28-year-old Badosa reached second place on the world rankings in 2022. Last year, she managed to reach the semifinals at the Australian Open.The New York-born player has four WTA titles to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=21640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21645,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21640\/revisions\/21645\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21643\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=21640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=21640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=21640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}