Dutch assets Botic van de Zandschulp and Jesper de Jong have been paired with strong left-handed players in the draw of Lib\u00e9ma Open 2025. Respectively Mattia Bellucci (ATP-68) and Alejandro Tabilo (ATP-61) await in the singles tournament.<\/p>
On his debut in the main tournament, De Jong will meet the former world number 19, with 28-year-old Tabilo. A year ago, the Chilean won a title on grass in Mallorca. Lib\u00e9ma Open debutant Bellucci, Van de Zandschulp’s opponent, is in turn hunting for his first victory on grass on the ATP Tour.<\/p>
Top seeds Daniil Medvedev, Ugo Humbert, Karen Khachanov and Alexei Popyrin receive a bye in the first round and will not be in action until the second round.<\/p>
Grass specialists & debutants<\/strong> Another familiar face returning is Jordan Thompson (ATP-40). The Australian reached the final in 2019 AND 2023 and is ranked sixth this year. His opponent in the first round is American Aleksandar Kovacevic (ATP-76), one of the most technically sophisticated players on the tour with a velvety single-handed backhand.<\/p> Also among the many debutants on this year’s playing roster are the in-form Portuguese Nuno Borges (ATP-41), the rock-solid Argentine Tom\u00e1s Mart\u00edn Etcheverry (ATP-53) and young Canadian talent Gabriel Diallo (ATP-54). With this year’s top-50 breakthrough Zizou Bergs, who will play against a qualifier, the southern neighbours are traditionally represented.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dutch assets Botic van de Zandschulp and Jesper de Jong have been paired with strong left-handed players in the draw of Lib\u00e9ma Open 2025. Respectively Mattia Bellucci (ATP-68) and Alejandro Tabilo (ATP-61) await in the singles tournament.On his debut in the main tournament, De Jong will meet the former world number 19, with 28-year-old Tabilo. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20285,"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\/20292\/"}],"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=20292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20292\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20364,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20292\/revisions\/20364\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20285\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Fifth-seeded Hubert Hurkacz – the man who retired Roger Federer at Wimbledon 2021 – faces Roberto Bautista Agut (ATP-49). The experienced rock from Spain is, like Hurkacz, a former top-10 player and already won the title on the Brabant grass in 2014. Both men have reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon before.<\/p>