{"id":17557,"date":"2023-06-18T18:46:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-18T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=17557"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:17:12","slug":"title-triumph-alexandrova-after-cracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2023\/06\/18\/title-triumph-alexandrova-after-cracker\/","title":{"rendered":"(2023) Title triumph Alexandrova after cracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of Lib\u00e9ma Open 2023 listens to the name Ekaterina Alexandrova for the second year in a row. In a true thriller, the fourth seed came back from a set and a break deficit against first seed Veronika Kudermetova: 4-6 6-4 7-6(3).<\/p><p>Before getting into the decisive tiebreak, the 28-year-old Alexandrova got three match points, but opponent Kudermetova managed to stay on her feet time and again to prolong the blood-curdling match. In the tiebreak, the world number 26 did not relinquish a lead. After 2 hours and 52 minutes of tennis, the emotional Alexandrova finally fell to her knees when a ball from her opponent disappeared into the net.<\/p><p>The match, which started later due to rain and was interrupted more than once, was a repeat of last year&#8217;s semi-final. Until this year&#8217;s final, the fourth seed had won the last 18 sets she played on the Brabant grass, counting her title campaign last year.<\/p><p>The win marks the fourth WTA title for Alexandrova and the first time she has managed to prolong a title.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner of Lib\u00e9ma Open 2023 listens to the name Ekaterina Alexandrova for the second year in a row. In a true thriller, the fourth seed came back from a set and a break deficit against first seed Veronika Kudermetova: 4-6 6-4 7-6(3).Before getting into the decisive tiebreak, the 28-year-old Alexandrova got three match points, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17546,"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\/17557\/"}],"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=17557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18018,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17557\/revisions\/18018\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17546\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=17557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=17557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=17557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}