{"id":20438,"date":"2025-06-09T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T14:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=20438"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:35:35","slug":"mertens-makes-convincing-tournament-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/09\/mertens-makes-convincing-tournament-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Mertens makes convincing tournament start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elise Mertens has ensured the first Belgian success this year. The number three seeded player, a regular at Lib\u00e9ma Open, was done with Viktoriya Tomova after just over an hour: 6-4 6-0.<\/p><p>Mertens is entering the tournament for the eighth time and is keen to improve on her quarter-final spot from 2016. The world number 25 is seeded third this week and will play in her next match against former top-three player Maria Sakkari or Dutch Anouk Koevermans.<\/p><p>The traditionally hefty Belgian supporters groups also made themselves heard loudly for Yanina Wickmayer, who qualified for the main tournament.<\/p><p>Notable duel in the first round was the confrontation between the Kudermetova sisters. Eighth-seeded Veronika, finalist of Lib\u00e9ma Open in 2023, proved too strong for her younger sister Polina, 6-3 6-3.<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elise Mertens has ensured the first Belgian success this year. The number three seeded player, a regular at Lib\u00e9ma Open, was done with Viktoriya Tomova after just over an hour: 6-4 6-0.Mertens is entering the tournament for the eighth time and is keen to improve on her quarter-final spot from 2016. The world number 25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20427,"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\/20438\/"}],"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=20438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20438\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20441,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20438\/revisions\/20441\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20427\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}