{"id":18220,"date":"2024-05-14T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2024-05-14T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T18:04:00","slug":"as-many-as-six-atp-top20-players-open-grass-season-at-libema-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2024\/05\/14\/as-many-as-six-atp-top20-players-open-grass-season-at-libema-open\/","title":{"rendered":"As many as six ATP top20 players open grass season at Lib\u00e9ma Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s singles field at Lib\u00e9ma Open is largely known. The list of the main tournament (10-16 June) includes no fewer than six players from the top 20. The qualifying tournament will be held beforehand on 8 and 9 June.<\/p><p>The grass season starts immediately after Roland Garros, so many top players are eager to come to \u2018s-Hertogenbosch to take part in the ATP 250 tournament.<\/p><p>Daniil Medvedev leads the field of participants. The world number four reached the final at the Autotron \u2018s-Hertogenbosch in 2022. Alex de Minaur (ATP-11), Ugo Humbert (ATP-15), Tommy Paul (ATP-16), Karen Khachanov (ATP-18) and Felix Auger-Aliassime (ATP-20) are the other players belonging to the global top20.<\/p><p>Former winners Adrian Mannarino (2019) and Tallon Griekspoor (2023) are also in contention as is last year&#8217;s finalist Jordan Thompson. The talented American Sebastian Korda is coming to Lib\u00e9ma Open for the first time. 2016 Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic is facing his second appearance in Brabant.<\/p><p>A total of 18 players are directly admitted to the main tournament. The organisation still has three wildcards to give away. The playing schedule is further complemented by four qualifiers and three Special Exempts.<\/p><p>The player list so far:<br \/>Name                                  Country               Ranking<br \/>Daniil Medvedev                                             #4<br \/>Alex de Minaur                        Australia             #11<br \/>Ugo Humbert                           France                #15<br \/>Tommy Paul                            USA                   #16<br \/>Karen Khachanov                                             #18<br \/>Felix Auger-Aliassime                 Canada                #20<br \/>Adrian Mannarino                      France                #21<br \/>Tallon Griekspoor                     Netherlands           #26<br \/>Sebastian Korda                       USA                   #27<br \/>Milos Raonic                          Canada                #33 (PR)<br \/>Jordan Thompson                       Australia             #35<br \/>Alexei Popyrin                        Australia             #42<br \/>Pedro Martinez                        Spain                 #51<br \/>Miomir Kecmanovic                     Serbia                #58<br \/>Alexander Shevchenko                  Kazakhstan            #60<br \/>Roberto Carballes Baena               Spain                 #62<br \/>Jakub Mensik                          Czechia               #65<br \/>Christopher O\u2019Connell                 Australia             #66<\/p><p>Lib\u00e9ma Open is a combined ATP\/WTA tournament and will be held from Saturday 8 to Sunday 16 June on the grass courts of Autotron \u2018s-Hertogenbosch.<\/p><p>The order of the finals on Sunday 16 June has been reversed this year. The singles title match of the men&#8217;s tournament starts at 12.00 pm. The singles final of the WTA tournament is scheduled at 2.30pm.<\/p><p>The women&#8217;s tournament&#8217;s field of participants will be announced soon.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The men&#8217;s singles field at Lib\u00e9ma Open is largely known. The list of the main tournament (10-16 June) includes no fewer than six players from the top 20. The qualifying tournament will be held beforehand on 8 and 9 June.The grass season starts immediately after Roland Garros, so many top players are eager to come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17733,"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\/18220\/"}],"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=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18221,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18221\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17733\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}