{"id":20672,"date":"2025-06-11T19:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2025-06-11T19:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T17:00:15","slug":"khachanov-wins-hard-fought-opening-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/11\/khachanov-wins-hard-fought-opening-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Khachanov wins hard-fought opening match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Khachanov is lucky his Lib\u00e9ma Open is not over yet. The seeded number three found himself in a tense situation several times in the third set, but was still able to win from Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3 5-7 7-6(4).<\/p><p>The US qualifier was ahead by an early break in the deciding set and was also the first to grab a mini-break in the tiebreak. Khachanov was still able to answer in both instances.<\/p><p>Khachanov will play Gabriel Diallo in the quarterfinals, who in turn even survived two match points before surprising two-time finalist Jordan Thompson.<\/p><p>Mark Lajal, after his two qualification victories, also won his first round in the main tournament. The 22-year-old Estonian did so against Laslo Djere, the Serbian who is some 130 places higher in the world rankings.<\/p><p>World number 191 Lajal is the next opponent of fifth seeded Hubert Hurkacz.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karen Khachanov is lucky his Lib\u00e9ma Open is not over yet. The seeded number three found himself in a tense situation several times in the third set, but was still able to win from Mackenzie McDonald: 6-3 5-7 7-6(4).The US qualifier was ahead by an early break in the deciding set and was also the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20663,"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\/20672\/"}],"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=20672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20675,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20672\/revisions\/20675\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20663\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}