{"id":10036,"date":"2019-06-11T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T17:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beheer.libema-open.nl\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:36:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T09:36:21","slug":"mertens-stopped-in-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2019\/06\/11\/mertens-stopped-in-opening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"Mertens stopped in opening round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elise Mertens did not succeed to get through the first round. Ekaterina Alexandrova was to strong for the Belgian: 6-4 6-2.<\/p><p>Mertens, third seed on the Brabant grass, started off well. However, her 3-1 advantage soon disappeared \u00a0when Alexandrova won three games in a row.<\/p><p>The Russian increased the pressure in the second set and Mertens did not have an answer. The number 52 of the world won the set and the match with 6-2.<\/p><p>Alexandrova will meet another Belgian in the next round. Qualifier Ysaline Bonaventure defeated lucky loser Fiona Ferro with 6-2 2-6 6-0.<\/p><p>Alison Riske and Polona Hercog also reached the second round. Riske defeated Karolina Muchova and Hercog was too strong for Christina McHale with 6-4 6-4.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elise Mertens did not succeed to get through the first round. Ekaterina Alexandrova was to strong for the Belgian: 6-4 6-2.Mertens, third seed on the Brabant grass, started off well. However, her 3-1 advantage soon disappeared \u00a0when Alexandrova won three games in a row.The Russian increased the pressure in the second set and Mertens did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[144,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/"}],"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\/7\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=10036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10037,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions\/10037\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10042\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=10036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=10036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=10036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}