{"id":12168,"date":"2022-06-04T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=12168"},"modified":"2023-01-13T14:46:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T12:46:56","slug":"strength-and-finesse-evenly-matched-after-womens-tournament-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2022\/06\/04\/strength-and-finesse-evenly-matched-after-womens-tournament-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"LO 2022: Strength and finesse evenly matched after women&#8217;s tournament draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Aryna Sabalenka and Belinda Bencic the schedule has two absolute world class players as top seeds. Number one of the rankings Sabalenka reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon last season. In Rosmalen this year, she might meet Arianne Hartono in the second round. The Dutchwoman, participating with a wildcard, starts against a qualifier.<\/p><p>Other high ranked players in the top part of the schedule are Kazakh hardhitter Elena Rybakina (3) and Belgian number one Elise Mertens (5). Both will open against a qualifier. Two-time finalist Kirsten Flipkens and Alison van Uytvanck, two more Belgian assets, are also seeded against Sabalenka and fifth seed Liudmilla Samsonova.<\/p><p>Bencic will have to find a way past the crafty Madison Brengle from the United States with her smart play. The Swiss, who already reached the final in Rosmalen in 2015, could run into Suzan Lamens in the second round. The young Dutchwoman received a wildcard and will in turn start against Anna Kalinskaya in the first round.<\/p><p>Fourth-seeded Tamara Zidansek, sixth-seeded Veronika Kudermetova and seventh-seeded Ekaterina Alexandrova will provide serious competition for Bencic in the lower part of the schedule.<\/p><p>The main tournament starts on Monday 6 June.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Aryna Sabalenka and Belinda Bencic the schedule has two absolute world class players as top seeds. Number one of the rankings Sabalenka reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon last season. In Rosmalen this year, she might meet Arianne Hartono in the second round. The Dutchwoman, participating with a wildcard, starts against a qualifier.Other high ranked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10591,"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/"}],"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=12168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13688,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12168\/revisions\/13688\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10591\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=12168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=12168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=12168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}