{"id":19798,"date":"2025-05-14T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T09:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=19798"},"modified":"2025-06-02T08:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:53:19","slug":"samsonova-defends-libema-open-title-in-strong-field-of-participants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/05\/14\/samsonova-defends-libema-open-title-in-strong-field-of-participants\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsonova defends Lib\u00e9ma Open title in strong field of participants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The field of participants in women&#8217;s singles at Lib\u00e9ma Open is graced by two former champions, a finalist and up-and-coming players.<\/p><p>At the top of the list is Ekaterina Alexandrova. The world number 20 won the title in 2022 and 2023. Last year&#8217;s champion Liudmila Samsonova (WTA-21) comes to Brabant to defend her title.<\/p><p>Elise Mertens (WTA-24) is the third top-30 player to choose Lib\u00e9ma Open. The Belgian number one will make her seventh appearance.<\/p><p>Finalist in 2023 Veronika Kudermetova (WTA-50) is present along with her sister Polina Kudermetova (WTA-57).<\/p><p>Other big names in action include Grand Slam finalists Danielle Collins (WTA-35) and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (WTA-52).<\/p><p>Emerging players come in the form of Olga Danilovic (WTA-33), Anastasia Potapova (WTA-34), Elina Avanesyan (WTA-38) and Dayana Yastremska (WTA-45).<\/p><p>Dutch input comes from national number one Suzan Lamens (WTA-71).<\/p><p>The schedule consists of 32 players in total. The 22 directly admitted names will be supplemented later by four wildcards and six qualifiers.<\/p><p><strong>The list of players:<\/strong><br \/>Ekaterina Alexandrova (WTA-20)<br \/>Liudmila Samsonova (WTA-21)<br \/>Elise Mertens (WTA-24)<br \/>Magda Linette (WTA-32)<br \/>Olga Danilovic (WTA-33)<br \/>Anastasia Potapova (WTA-34)<br \/>Danielle Collins (WTA-35)<br \/>Xinyu Wang (WTA-43)<br \/>Lulu Sun (WTA-46)<br \/>Veronika Kudermetova (WTA-50)<br \/>Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (WTA-52)<br \/>Camila Osorio (WTA-55)<br \/>Polina Kudermetova (WTA-57)<br \/>Ann Li (WTA-59)<br \/>Kimberly Birrell (WTA-60)<br \/>Viktoriya Tomova (WTA-61)<br \/>Katerina Siniakova (WTA-62)<br \/>Eva Lys (WTA-63)<br \/>Anastasija Sevastova (WTA-65)<br \/>Anna Blinkova (WTA-67)<br \/>Suzan Lamens (WTA-71)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The field of participants in women&#8217;s singles at Lib\u00e9ma Open is graced by two former champions, a finalist and up-and-coming players.At the top of the list is Ekaterina Alexandrova. The world number 20 won the title in 2022 and 2023. Last year&#8217;s champion Liudmila Samsonova (WTA-21) comes to Brabant to defend her title.Elise Mertens (WTA-24) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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\/19798\/"}],"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=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20179,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions\/20179\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19795\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}