{"id":20853,"date":"2025-06-13T17:12:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/?p=20853"},"modified":"2025-06-13T17:12:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T15:12:28","slug":"alexandrova-in-semi-final-against-mertens-after-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/2025\/06\/13\/alexandrova-in-semi-final-against-mertens-after-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandrova in semi-final against Mertens after thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It did not come naturally, but two-time champion Ekaterina Alexandrova has secured a spot in the last four. In a repeat of the thrilling 2023 final, the number two seeded won over Veronika Kudermetova: 5-7 6-4 6-2.<\/p><p>The 2022 and 2023 champion had to come back from a set deficit on centre court and needed two hours and 20 minutes in the tropical temperatures to shake off former world number 9 Kudermetova.<\/p><p>To get through to the final again, Alexandrova will have to find an answer to the thunderous play of third-series head Elise Mertens this week. The Belgian number one has not lost a set in her three matches and expertly disposed of lucky loser Yue Yuan in the last eight: 6-0 6-4.<\/p><p>Alexandrova and Mertens faced each other four times before, with the first encounter remarkably dating back to Rosmalen in 2019 (win Alexandrova). Meanwhile, the grass specialist leads 3-1 in mutual duels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It did not come naturally, but two-time champion Ekaterina Alexandrova has secured a spot in the last four. In a repeat of the thrilling 2023 final, the number two seeded won over Veronika Kudermetova: 5-7 6-4 6-2.The 2022 and 2023 champion had to come back from a set deficit on centre court and needed two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20847,"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\/20853\/"}],"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=20853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20856,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20853\/revisions\/20856\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20847\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=20853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=20853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libema-open.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=20853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}