{"id":18912,"date":"2024-06-11T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=18912"},"modified":"2024-06-11T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:27:15","slug":"strong-start-for-top-seeded-pegula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2024\/06\/11\/strong-start-for-top-seeded-pegula\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong start for top-seeded Pegula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Number one seed Jessica Pegula got off to a good start at Lib\u00e9ma Open. The American opened the centre court programme on Tuesday with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Aliaksandra Sasnovich.<\/p><p>Pegula, world number five, played on the Brabant grass for the first time in 2015. Notably, it marked her first ever appearance at a grass tournament at WTA level. Ten years later, she has made a winning comeback and may face none other than Aleksandra Krunic in the second round, who needed three sets against qualifier Jessika Ponchet: 4-6 6-2 6-1.<\/p><p>The Serbian won the title in 2018 and is child&#8217;s play at the Autotron \u2018s-Hertogenbosch.<\/p><p>Sixth-ranked Yue Yuan also played a three-setter. The Chinese made a comeback against Diana Shnaider: 1-6 6-4 6-3.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Number one seed Jessica Pegula got off to a good start at Lib\u00e9ma Open. The American opened the centre court programme on Tuesday with a 6-2 6-2 victory over Aliaksandra Sasnovich.Pegula, world number five, played on the Brabant grass for the first time in 2015. Notably, it marked her first ever appearance at a grass [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18896,"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\/18912\/"}],"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=18912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18913,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18912\/revisions\/18913\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18896\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=18912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=18912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=18912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}