{"id":20566,"date":"2025-06-10T20:40:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=20566"},"modified":"2025-06-10T20:40:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:40:01","slug":"opelka-lost-in-qualifiers-but-beats-de-jong-in-main-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/10\/opelka-lost-in-qualifiers-but-beats-de-jong-in-main-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Opelka lost in qualifiers but beats De Jong in main tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reilly Opelka made good use of his lucky loser status. The American service canon defeated Jesper de Jong in a three-setter, in a match that not entirely surprisingly produced a couple of tiebreaks: 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-2.<\/p><p>In the second set, De Jong could hope for a win in straight sets after coming back from a 5-2 deficit. In the tiebreak, Opelka still managed to force a third set.<\/p><p>While it still turned sunny on centre court in the evening after a rainy day, the lights went out for De Jong. Twice he had to give up his service game in set three and so the 6-foot-11 man advanced to the second round.<\/p><p>Opelka, who lost in the qualifying tournament but still made it to the main draw after a cancellation, will have a chance to reach the quarterfinals against Chilean Nicolas Jarry.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reilly Opelka made good use of his lucky loser status. The American service canon defeated Jesper de Jong in a three-setter, in a match that not entirely surprisingly produced a couple of tiebreaks: 6-7(5) 7-6(5) 6-2.In the second set, De Jong could hope for a win in straight sets after coming back from a 5-2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20564,"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\/20566\/"}],"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=20566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20569,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20566\/revisions\/20569\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20564\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}