{"id":14602,"date":"2023-06-11T19:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=14602"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:21:09","slug":"qualification-for-goffin-and-french-teenage-talents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2023\/06\/11\/qualification-for-goffin-and-french-teenage-talents\/","title":{"rendered":"(2023) Qualification for Goffin and French teenage talents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main tournament was enriched on Sunday with rock-solid qualifiers. Among others, Belgian hero David Goffin and only 18-year-old Arthur Fils have come through the preliminaries strongly.<\/p><p>It is a pity there are no ties in tennis. Indeed, the success of Goffin, finalist in 2015, went hand in hand with a sour defeat for Jesper de Jong. The Dutchman got a match point in the tiebreak of the third set but could not cash in: 2-6 6-2 7-6(6).<\/p><p>Goffin (32) was the second seed in the qualifiers behind Arthur Fils. The young Frenchman, who recently won his first ATP title in Lyon, dealt with compatriot Pierre-Hugues Herbert in the last qualifying round: 6-3 6-3.<\/p><p>Fils is not the only French teenager to have advanced to the main draw. His one-year older colleague Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard followed suit, winning 6-7(5) 6-4 6-4 against Edan Leshem and thus will make his debut at an ATP tournament.<\/p><p>The fourth and final qualifier listens to the name Ricardas Berankis. The former world number 50 was too strong for 22-year-old Australian Rinky Hijikata in straight sets: 6-4 6-4.<\/p><p>Among the women, six international players have advanced to the main tournament. Germany&#8217;s Lena Papadakis, Turkey&#8217;s Zeynep Sonmez, Switzerland&#8217;s Susan Bandecchi, Canada&#8217;s Carol Zhao, America&#8217;s Emina Bektas and Serbia&#8217;s Natalija Stevanovic are continuing their campaign.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main tournament was enriched on Sunday with rock-solid qualifiers. Among others, Belgian hero David Goffin and only 18-year-old Arthur Fils have come through the preliminaries strongly.It is a pity there are no ties in tennis. Indeed, the success of Goffin, finalist in 2015, went hand in hand with a sour defeat for Jesper de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":14585,"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\/14602\/"}],"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=14602"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18043,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14602\/revisions\/18043\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14585\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=14602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=14602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=14602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}