{"id":20556,"date":"2025-06-10T18:17:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=20556"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T16:17:56","slug":"andreescu-starts-strong-as-series-heads-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/10\/andreescu-starts-strong-as-series-heads-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Andreescu starts strong as series heads drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu continues where she left off last year on the Brabant grass. The 24-year-old Canadian reached the final in 2024 (on her birthday) and impressed in her opening match on Tuesday. On court 1, qualifier Joanna Garland was knocked out 6-1 6-3.<\/p><p>In the next round, Andreescu, former world number four, faces seventh-seeded New Zealand&#8217;s Lulu Sun, who in turn already managed to win over Dutch wildcard player Anouk Vrancken Peeters 6-1 6-3.<\/p><p>There were also a few surprises in the women&#8217;s tournament. Fourth-seeded Magda Linette came up just short against American Bernarda Pera: 6-2 6-7(10) 7-5.<\/p><p>The tournament also ended with a three-set defeat for sixth seed Xinyu Wang. Australia&#8217;s Kimberley Birrell was responsible for this: 7-5 6-7(2) 6-1.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bianca Andreescu continues where she left off last year on the Brabant grass. The 24-year-old Canadian reached the final in 2024 (on her birthday) and impressed in her opening match on Tuesday. On court 1, qualifier Joanna Garland was knocked out 6-1 6-3.In the next round, Andreescu, former world number four, faces seventh-seeded New Zealand&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20554,"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\/20556\/"}],"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=20556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20559,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20556\/revisions\/20559\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20554\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}